Tolerance – the lowest common denominator

// "Tolerance - it’s a catchall term that frequently comes to the aid of politicians, automatically distinguishing its user from those...

Written by Lucinda Borkett-Jones

Redeeming Culture in a Digital Age

// "I’m a passionate believer that we need to be ‘incarnational’ in the digital spaces, whether those are specifically ‘Christian’ spaces...

Written by Bex Lewis

Confessions of a glory-seeker

// "It's a place many United fans of my age have never really been. The thought of not supporting the winning...

Written by Chine McDonald

Take a walk on the dark side

// "Perhaps we need to enter into our own darkness, to acknowledge the shame we feel and allow ourselves to be...

Written by Katherine Maxwell-Rose

Pigeon Christians

// "If people of faith don’t learn to communicate in accessible, comprehensible ways and if the language that we use hasn’t...

Written by Andy Tilsley

Gaining the approval of others – it’s just not pleasing

// "If our view of ourselves is built on what others say or think about us, then we are not believing...

Written by Lucy Cooper

God wants us to speak up

// "Bob Crow and Tony Benn were both atheists, but they spoke up against injustice, inequality and the things they believed...

Written by Hannah Kowszun

The beauty of church diversity

// "Where else in the world would you find the street-sweeper not just sat next to the university professor but actually...

Written by Dan Steel

Let’s get angrier

// "But flip anger over, and we discover that it has an amazingly constructive power. Anger reveals to us the things...

Written by Alexandra Lilley

The Jesus of my own making

// "If I wasn’t a follower of Jesus and I was looking in on the Twitter feeds of Christians, I would...

Written by Carl Beech

The tracks of my years

// God was in it all, after all.

Written by Madeleine Davies

Take a deep breath

// "Suddenly I gained a fresh perspective on my stresses and petty sulking and I finally relaxed. Believing those words brought...

Written by Alasdair Lindop

A ropey and dysfunctional community

// "Jesus’s disciples were a nightmare too. They ditched him on prayer nights out, pretended not to know him when he...

Written by Mim Skinner

Play second fiddle

// "Leonard Bernstein, the late conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, was once asked to name the most difficult instrument...

Written by Andy Tilsley

Finding him in the void

// "But in our emptiness lies true potential. It seems as if the man in Jesus’ story missed the point. The...

Written by Esther Andrews

Is it possible to be faithful and famous?

// "There are Christians who are famous and there are famous people who happen to be Christian. The latter are either...

Written by Hannah Kowszun

Disorganised? It’s a Biblical trait.

// "Jesus' time management involved finding time to talk to apparently insignificant people in crowds whilst on his way to heal...

Written by Claire Paye

Have a magi-cal Christmas!

// "Jesus was God's plan to rescue us from our stress; from the crazed, hysterical, complex mazes of our lives –...

Written by threads

Growth: the slow, the secret and the unspectacular

// "I wonder how Pavarotti felt during those fourteen years of relative obscurity. Chances are that a fair few of those...

Written by Anthony O. Thomas

What are you waiting for?

// But I’ve also discovered that God is in the despair too; not just the shiny future. And that He isn’t...

Written by Kate Pearson