I know I’m stressed when…

// I start talking to myself. In plural ‘We need to buy milk, then we're going to...'

Written by threads

Advent devotions – day 21

// Thought

Written by Simon Lang

Tips for the socially awkward in party season

// Nervous about the work do or spending every night having to socially interact? Here are a few tips for the...

Written by Ruth Mawhinney

Let’s get naked

// Jesus’ unpredictable ministry was not the work of someone who had one eye on Jerusalem and one eye on Twitter...

Written by Andy Flannagan

Advent devotions – day 20

// Thank-you

Written by Simon Lang

Our great expectations

// Fleeing his childhood ways, Pip heads out into the wider world without any real sense of direction.

Written by Bryony Young

Advent devotions – day 19

// But angels don't sing...

Written by Simon Lang

Advent devotions – day 18

// Human yet divine

Written by Simon Lang

Israel: God’s promise fulfilled

// The word ‘Israel’ is on nearly every page of our Bibles. Yet few Christians give today’s modern state a second...

Written by Sam Hailes

God control: How a few good Christian soldiers could change America

// Jesus wouldn’t own a gun, even if everyone around him was packing heat.

Written by Martin Saunders

Newtown shootings: a time to groan, take action, then love

// We’re groaning, like we’re in childbirth, and that child is taking an age to come.

Written by Charis Gibson

Advent devotions – day 17

// They're there for a reason: Part IV

Written by Simon Lang

Advent devotions – day 16

// They're there for a reason: Part III

Written by Simon Lang

Advent devotions – day 15

// They're there for a reason: Part II

Written by Simon Lang

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

Bearers of hope in the middle of despair

// Just when the Goliaths of brutality and despair threaten to overbear, we recall threads of hope.

Written by David Smyth

Breaking free from the vultures

// I did not realise that the relationship I had with a guy I'd known for nearly 10 years was abusive...

Written by Jem Oruwari

Live Review: Matt Corby & Bear’s Den

// Hackney Round Chapel, London, Tuesday December 11.

Written by Angeline Liles

Why I hate Christmas

// Ladies and gentlemen, Scrooge has entered the building...

Written by Katherine Maxwell-Rose

Advent devotions – day 14

// They're there for a reason: Part I

Written by Simon Lang