The dangers of Pick’n’mixianity

// "Steve Chalke recently suggested that on the contrary, the Bible is not divine revelation but conversation. In his article Have...

Written by Caleb Woodbridge

Muncle: If there’s a God, then what’s He up to?

// "I’m having lunch with the singer-songwriter Muncle in his trendy Dalston flat. We’ve just played a game of table tennis...

Written by Ed Mayhew

5 thoughts on women in church leadership

// "All of you – please, please, please be nice when you talk about this. I don't care how wrong you...

Written by Hannah Malcolm

When girls go missing

// "Why were these two girls collateral for such a large sum of money? Why does an already tragic tale of...

Written by Felicity Cowling

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

Why are we so afraid of women bishops?

// "I'm not naive. I understand that women in ministry is a hot topic, but what is it that makes it...

Written by Jody Stowell

What are you working for?

// "Throughout the 1990s the word ‘incentivise’ appeared 449 times in major newspapers. In just two years, 2010-11, it appeared 5,885...

Written by Mark Sampson

Is Church an empowering place for women?

// "As girls we were told that our call is as mothers and wives, a call that is external to us,...

Written by Natalie Collins

Egalitarian marriage: who wears the trousers?

// "Egalitarian marriage is not about role reversal. It is not about women, rather than men, wearing the trousers – it...

Written by Ruth Wells

How to be a Christian man

// Hannah Malcolm's recent piece 'How to be a Christian Woman' turned out to be a popular threads post. At the...

Written by Roy Hollands

Finding out I’m faulty

// "I know that God knew I would be like this and would see me through it. But I feel like...

Written by Charis Duckworth

You don’t know me

// We all want to be known, right?

Written by Rachel Holmes

Things I wish I knew

// I might have to spend most of the rest of my life in this state of non-omniscience.

Written by Hannah Malcolm

The Soulmate Conspiracy

// "All these comments, no matter how well intentioned, are as useful as a bikini in a blizzard when faced with...

Written by Lucy Cooper

Robotic love

// "Will we invent a plug-and-play Jesus? A 3D projection of a bearded white guy spouting the whole of the Bible...

Written by Alexandra Khan

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

Marriage is no fairytale

// "I’m tired of feeling like the honesty of real marriage is going to burst some idolised bubble of single dreamers....

Written by Kathryn Blakey

When social action is not enough

// "We often prefer charity to justice because challenging systems involves inevitable conflict with powerful vested interests for whom the system...

Written by Andy Flannagan

Hand-me-down faith

// "Religious correctness is as obnoxious as its political namesake to both those who believe and those who don't, and should...

Written by Dave Griffiths

When suffering won’t go away

// "As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said: “Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.”

Written by Luke Barrs