Standing out in a crowd full of attention-seekers

// We don’t have to try to be any bigger, cleverer or more in-yer-face than we are.

Written by Ed Mayhew

A better way: to do politics

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Written by threads

I am not…

// Just as no one is excluded from the offer of life in Christ, so no one should be excluded from...

Written by Haydon Spenceley

New Horizon – a better way: to do justice

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Written by threads

Outside looking in

// Katharine Welby is the guest editor for threads this week. She asks: how do we create a place where we...

Written by Katharine Welby-Roberts

On being Christian and (vegan)noying as hell

// I have a sense of humour about it. You have to when you’re the only vegan at the church hog...

Written by Naomi Rose Steinberg

10 surprising things about the Bible: part 1

// Maybe these won't be surprising to you. But, then again, maybe they will. And there'll be more coming soon...

Written by Ben Whitnall

Baking over botox: Why Leah shouldn’t win The Apprentice

// From breast augmentation to nose jobs to buttock implants, millions of people are going under the knife to change the...

Written by Chine McDonald

7 ways to go into business with God, not Lord Sugar

// God wants to ensure your success, and will - if you let Him.

Written by Jonathan Bender

Jesus wasn’t a feminist

// Jesus was radical, but he treated women equally to men.

Written by Bethany Moffett

What’s in a name? Everything

// We’re probably being disingenuous if we say we don’t make any assumptions about others from what they’re called.

Written by Sarah McCarten

We are not special

// We're not the good guys we think we are.

Written by Jonty Langley

What’s in a name?

// “A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from,” Hopkins said.

Written by Ruth Garner

Doing it in public

// Whatever you were made for….do it.

Written by Jody Stowell

Do we really need leaders?

// Perhaps, like a candidate on The Apprentice, we feel the need to start each task by appointing someone to take...

Written by Matt White

Weren’t we all going to change the world?

// God’s plan meant excitement, risk, facing down knife-wielding lunatics in alleyways, welcoming drug addicts into my home, letting them raid...

Written by Fiona Spence

I’m not addicted to my mobile

// Give up my phone for 24 hours? I don't think so.

Written by Felicity Cowling

Who is Nigella’s neighbour?

// Recent photographs released which seem to depict the art collector Charles Saatchi strangling celebrity chef Nigella Lawson and pinching her...

Written by Natalie Collins

Can you be a Christian and buy a diamond ring?

// After promising to myself that I'd never buy an uncertified diamond, I bought two...

Written by Jim Atkins

Woolwich terror: are we also guilty?

// As a nation, we should stand with the family of Drummer Lee Rigby and mourn his tragic loss, but Jonty...

Written by Jonty Langley