We’re all activists here

// Women have always been in the business of quietly following the dangerous, table-turning ways of Jesus.

Written by Naomi Williams

Rest is for losers

// In a world that struggles to stop, is it better to be a loser than a winner?

Written by Andy Tilsley

Confession

// What happens when a friend's joy cuts you to the core?

Written by Sheila Matthews

Over The Rhine and into the sanctuary

// Check out Danny's review of their London gig

Written by Danny Webster

Awkward

// It's National Fertility Awareness Week, and today we ask why infertility is so hard to talk about?

Written by Sheila Matthews

Girl about town’s Halloween nightmare

// She's back with a bang! (Sorry)

Written by Girl About Town

He knows you

// He knows every detail and nanosecond of your existence - every atom, molecule, skin cell, and ligament.

Written by Sheridan Voysey

A way forward with friends who’ve lost faith

// There's a story about Saint Therese of Liseux that puzzles and warms me.

Written by Joel Leakey

Who do you think you are?

// Read the One People Commission's findings on how Millennials engage with their faith.

Written by threads

When your foster kids arrive by police car

// Would you allow your dreams to be big enough to give a home to the children nobody else dreams of?

Written by Pat Copeland

What if we’re not all meant to save the world after all?

// Sometimes the pursuit of a ‘meaningful’ career can become as narrow-minded and limiting as the pursuit of success.

Written by Christine Gilland

Fostering at 30

// Laura and her husband decided to become foster parents. They are only 30 years of age. Here's what they've learned so far.

Written by Laura

Shawshank adoption

// Why is it unusual for our churches to even mention our adoption into God’s family, let alone our mandate to care for the vulnerable?

Written by Krish Kandiah

Whose care do care-leavers leave?

// Children weren’t created to be cared for by institutions; they were designed for family.

Written by Joe McSharry

Family is a factory of hope

// Every 22 minutes a child in the UK is taken into care. That is desperately sad.

Written by Phil Green

Called to listen

// What the story of Samuel teaches us about hearing God's voice today.

Written by Sheridan Voysey

Holy singleness

// When God visits earth He comes as a single man. That alone blesses singleness with divine dignity.

Written by Sheridan Voysey

Everyday faith after festivals end

// As an organiser of a Christian festival, I am the first to say that our lives shouldn’t just be shaped by a one-time event.

Written by Sarah Yardley

Why the Bible has power if we’ll let it

// We can’t expect just to fit the Bible into our lives. Instead, I choose to fit my life, my story, into the far bigger story of the Bible.

Written by Dave Criddle

The traveller’s Bible

// The fourth post in our NIV50 series looks at how the Bible is true for every human on earth.

Written by Jo Trickey