Why the media’s male stereotyping isn’t that big a deal

// Role models aren’t only found within scripted scenes squeezed into 20 minutes of screen time.

Written by Jonathan Sherwin

Comedy identity: making peace with the church circuit

// I left New Wine feeling like the week had been the absolute highlight of my career. And if you’d told...

Written by Andy Kind

Real men don’t drink fruit tea

// Carl Beech kicks off his all-male guest editor week with a challenge to all of us to realise that we...

Written by Carl Beech

When and where to find threads at Greenbelt…

// We're excited to announce that we're curating 10 talks at Greenbelt Festival next week.

Written by threads

Standing out in a crowd full of attention-seekers

// We don’t have to try to be any bigger, cleverer or more in-yer-face than we are.

Written by Ed Mayhew

Boy About Town: Why I won’t be dating Miss 29

// What's the point in a date unless it looks forward, unless there is some sort of goal in mind?

Written by Boy About Town

Make a wish

// Our dream is that the Church will be a place where stories are told of broken things made whole.

Written by Chine McDonald

Our most popular posts *ever* – #threadsis1

// It's our birthday! And to celebrate turning one this weekend, we have revisited our most popular stories over the past...

Written by threads

Testimony of a failed agnostic

// Its astounding reality bursts out of the manger scene, triumphantly calling from the empty cross on the altar.

Written by Hannah Malcolm

Myth 8: ‘If I’m unable to work in a paid job, I’m not contributing to society’

// We have even begun to use business words to talk about the Church: ‘networking’, ‘strategy’, ‘vision’, ‘cell groups’.

Written by Anya Briggs

Prayer: My dirty little secret

// God seems to choose, every day, not to answer prayers.

Written by Jonty Langley

Reframing conversations

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Written by David Smyth

Church: welcome to the party

// Kate Bottley, aka the 'Viral Vicar', on church, dancing and inviting people to join the fun.

Written by Kate Bottley

I am not…

// Just as no one is excluded from the offer of life in Christ, so no one should be excluded from...

Written by Haydon Spenceley

How to fulfil your destiny

// We are not what we do, but what we do helps form who we are.

Written by Vicky Walker

Outside looking in

// Katharine Welby is the guest editor for threads this week. She asks: how do we create a place where we...

Written by Katharine Welby-Roberts

10 surprising things about the Bible: part 2

// Second enlightening Bible-based installment from Ben Whitnall...

Written by Ben Whitnall

Wanted: a Christian guy for Miss 29

// While some of my closest friends are Christian, I've never dated anyone religious before.

Written by Miss 29

How do you solve a problem like Millennials?

// We want depth, we want space to be ourselves, but our needs are also linked to our stage of life.

Written by Hannah Mudge

The wind, the weed and the wild goose

// Are we making room for the unexpected? Do we too quickly dismiss the different, the awkward, or, what seems to...

Written by Phil Hoyle