Resurrection: from religion to real faith

// It is possible for someone to attend worship, hear the stories and pray, yet never know the life-giving reality that...

Written by Cris Rogers

When sin becomes too familiar

// A man appears on screen. He has just hacked another human being to death in plain sight in south-east London....

Written by Chine McDonald

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

Why faith should hurt

// God never promised that staying close would be easy.

Written by Claire Musters

On godliness and giving blood

// I could be giving myself to a drug dealer, a gang leader, a child abuser or murderer.

Written by Chris Ware

The virginity of Jesus

// Doesn’t the fact that Jesus was born of a virgin mother and that he lived a celibate life suggest that...

Written by Alastair Roberts

Toxic Christianese

// Christianese is the language of religion and judgement.

Written by Rachel Nunson

If weed was legal

// Can you picture Jesus lighting a joint in the Garden of Gethsemane?

Written by Bethany Moffett

Jesus & the Pre-Raphaelites

// All culture is communicating a message, and we can either let that go unnoticed or pull it up against Biblical...

Written by Angeline Liles

Expect great things

// I guess if you genuinely expect the world to end, then you live in a certain way.

Written by James Silley

O little town of Bethlehem

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Written by threads

12 picks of Christmas: Swingle Singers, spoon-playing and the baby Jesus

// A bumper pick of the week chosen by some of our curators and editorial team to get you through the...

Written by threads

Getting Christmassy and garlic stollen

// Back in the old days, Christmas was a simple affair for me. I’d spent most of December ignoring it and...

Written by James Cary

Shane Claiborne and the red-letter revolution

// People didn’t walk away from Jesus and say: “Man, he sure doesn’t like gay folks, or he’s so judgemental or...

Written by Katherine Maxwell-Rose

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

The red letter revolution

// What if Jesus really meant what He said?

Written by Tony Campolo

So what if Jesus was married?

// This week, Harvard professor Karen King unveiled a fragment of papyrus that speaks of Jesus’ wife.

Written by Phil Green

Godbaby: All grown up

// He cries, he wees, he saves the world.

Written by Luke Maxted