White? Middle-class? Male? Count yourself privileged.
// Research done in recent years tells us that the average Christian is a Latin American or African woman in her...
Written by Hannah Mudge
Open source murder weapons
// With another US shooting at the weekend, Jonty Langley considers the 'freedom' which guns claim to bring.
Written by Jonty Langley
Time to grow up, Primark
// Will the horrific building collapse in Dhaka killing at least 900 people, be enough for cheap clothing stores to take...
Written by Matt Hitchings
Is climate change as bad as slavery?
// Over the past few hundred years Christians have a proud record of standing up to some of the great injustices...
Written by Joe Ware
The wall that fear helps to build
// Statistics, news bites, headlines make us feel like we understand. It’s black and white, clear-cut and laid out in a...
Written by Tina Boonstra
Give to Cameron what is Cameron’s?
// The early Christians were all over breaking the law.
Written by Mim Skinner
What would Jesus pirate?
// I was merrily ripping my CDs, even after I found out it was illegal.
Written by Caleb Woodbridge
Is the BBC anti-Christian?
// In Eastenders, the only regular Christian character is a chain-smoking, loopy old bat, intended for ridicule.
Written by Marcus Stead
Food glorious food!
// Hunger and I fell out a long time ago – probably when I was about six and tucking into homemade...
Written by Katherine Maxwell-Rose
On the ground in Cyprus
// There is nothing like a bank-closing, savings-confiscating, job-endangering crisis to expose your insecurities.
Written by Bekah Mastris
Why Thatcher’s funeral was really terribly weird
// A spiritual atheist finds all the pomp, spectacle and ritual of Margaret Thatcher's funeral utterly bizarre.
Written by Lucie Mussett
We don’t want to talk about it
// The Christian world, and more importantly the world of Rick Warren and his family was rocked with the news that...
Written by Rachael Newham
Maggie and me: on Thatcher, sin and grace
// As soon as I start to take it upon myself to decide who's in and who's out, I can't help...
Written by Chine McDonald
It’s a baby
// In an abandoned half-built building in Lebanon, Katie Harrison discovered Syrian refugee families sheltering, and one very tiny baby.
Written by Katie Harrison
Compassionate capitalism
// Why some people have a responsibility to earn the big bucks
Written by Hannah Kowszun
The UK is not skint: in defence of social security
// Those in work are not subsidising those on benefits. Those in work often are those on benefits.
Written by Andy Walton
The British Good Samaritan
// In the week we’ve seen the awful conditions and dire need for emergency funds in Syria, we can be proud...
Written by Joe Ware
Can you be a Christian and still eat meat?
// The choices we make about what we eat directly reflect and impact how we treat other people.
Written by Sarah Rowe
The human propensity to f*** things up
// What sin really is.
Written by Francis Spufford
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