Let’s ‘cha cha slide’ for Jesus: The rise of prescriptive worship
// If the whole church that was singing ‘we bow down’ actually bowed down, it would be carnage; we’d have to...
Written by Mim Skinner
We all need to be nudists
// Our shortcomings and failures can be responded to with bucket loads of grace, but that there is also a time...
Written by Cris Rogers
The church of Biodanza
// While taking a class in Biodanza, Alex White hugs strangers, gets his face stroked and realises it's really not that...
Written by Alex White
The guest service; a question of balance?
// This Easter, I attended a service that was definitely not aimed at guests, seekers, or new Christians - no more...
Written by Hannah Mudge
The Top Gear approach to church
// I spend a lot of time in church feeling pretty bored and laughing politely at jokes that I would ignore...
Written by Jamie Cutteridge
Why I won’t be inviting my friends to church
// Not everyone who walks through a church door is seeking to be rescued or to become someone's pet project or...
Written by Jem Oruwari
Why should I give my money to the church?
// I’ve heard many sermons about why Christians should give their money to the Church, but I’ve had very little feedback...
Written by Fiona Spence
Don’t ask, don’t tell
// In a 2011 American survey 80% of unmarried 18-29 year olds respondents describing themselves as evangelical had also had sex.
Written by Vicky Walker
About a bride
// I still remember seeing her for the first time that day. Dressed in white. Stunning. Beautiful. Radiant. I gasped, momentarily...
Written by Simon Lang
Brian McLaren: a faith that listens
// "Whatever a person's religion, everyone has a choice."
Written by Chine McDonald
A tale of two cities: church and long-distance relationships
// I could just have called this article ‘Living on the Eurostar’, for I have entered into a phase of life...
Written by David Salisbury
After the abuse: grace for the abusers?
// I never really thought about what it means to be a Christian and a survivor, to the point where I...
Written by Helen Austin
Ticking boxes: confessions of a high achiever
// I fail at ticking the boxes of reading the Bible, praying and doing the church thing. As a high achiever,...
Written by Natalie Collins
Breathe
// I’m deliberately abandoning the enterprise of making sense of myself. I breathe in, I breathe out. The silence hisses, neither...
Written by Francis Spufford
Thank God for the women bishops veto
// If Jesus can joyfully submit, then I’m going to fight my instincts to be the boss and try my best...
Written by Catherine Brooks
Sorry from the Church
// Becca Dean's letter to young women in the Church, following on from the General Synod vote on women bishops this...
Written by Becca Dean
Beneath the floorboards
// In church, we dare not let our neighbour in the pew know of our unconquered sin because they are righteous...
Written by Jonty Langley
A grey area
// While we were getting our collective knickers in a twist, others were casting theirs aside with abandon. Christian viewpoints once...
Written by Vicky Walker
Worship who?
// The amount of energy we put into sustaining a cyclical pattern of meetings, worship sets and ultimately a wider Christian...
Written by Dave Griffiths
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