Christmas under siege: Let’s grow up

// "Our celebration alters the working year, dominates broadcasting, advertising, children’s expectations and the food we likely eat for months, and...

Written by Jonty Langley

Why Christian men should tell women they are hot

// "That was the moment when I realised that Christian culture had messed with my head. Of course being told you’re...

Written by Sarah Lewney

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

Why MPs deserve more money

// Are our elected representatives worth the pay increase?

Written by Richard Woodall

Let me die empty

// I don’t want a half-baked, mediocre life that looks good on paper but is quickly forgotten about months down the...

Written by Ruth Baid

Learning to appreciate

// You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.

Written by Rachel Holmes

Breaking the shame of femininity

// No woman in the Bible particularly liked flowery things.

Written by Katie Purser

Miss 29: I dated a Christian and I liked it

// We helped find atheist Miss 29 a Christian date. The result wasn't quite what we had expected...

Written by Miss 29

Have we lost the art of neighbourliness?

// It is our job as Christians to be those annoying neighbours who bake cookies like ‘desperate housewives’, coo over the...

Written by Becky Steed

Nelson Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

// What’s more remarkable is that not only was hatred absent, but love was present.

Written by Karen Webber

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

Blessings in the things that are not

// Blessed are the high net worth individuals for they will fund the social justice initiatives

Written by Emily Bowerman

The lifestyle idol

// It’s not so much money that’s the idol, it’s the lifestyle. What’s even worse is that I’m fully aware that...

Written by Rachel Holmes

The cost of forgiveness

// Are you suffering from First World Problems?

Written by Hannah Kowszun

A Facebook Fast: the advent of virtual liberation

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Written by Jon Kuhrt

That is why the world hates you

// Hate is such a strong word.

Written by Emilia Ramirez-Vidal

The ‘black dog’ of depression

// Professional sportsmen and women (even rich professional sportsmen and women), are not infallible.

Written by Richard Woodall

When healing doesn’t come

// I've seen many people who have had sicknesses, ailments, life-ending diseases, for whom grace and mercy has not included a...

Written by Haydon Spenceley

Welcome…

// Welcome.

Written by Andy Flannagan

Smoking – cheeky little vice?

// I had my first puff when I was about 15.

Written by Dave Griffiths