What are you doing with those beliefs?

// I’m used to my beliefs feeling out of step with the culture around me...

Written by Ben Askew

Do charities need ice buckets?

// Is this what charity has become? Dumping ice water on heads in exchange for 'likes' and retweets?

Written by Tim Wyatt

Who would Jesus vote for?

// With Christians seemingly spread across the political spectrum, how do I use my vote in a Christ-like way?

Written by Amelia Abplanalp

On being a Christian and not going to church

// Church is hard.

Written by Anne Bragg

Memories of home

// "In South Sudan, the concept of home is a fluid one."

Written by Alex Fergusson

threads asks: what do you want to see on threads?

// While it's been a wonderful two years... we're keen to look forward and figure out the best way to serve...

Written by threads

We are the Church

// Growing up as a vicar’s kid, I quickly learnt that there are three types of congregation member...

Written by threads

threads is two!

// Here are year two's most popular posts.

Written by threads

Fasting v Fasting

// Am I fasting to be thinner or to be obedient?

Written by Phoebe Thompson

When fasting got fashionable

// "I don’t find it very surprising that something God asks or even expects us to do is good for us."

Written by Phoebe Thompson

The tears of a clown: when comedians hurt

// “Even if you can make a joke out of anything, you can still feel crushingly lonely”

Written by Andrew Horton

Depression: it’s time for the Church to talk

// "Most of the key characters in the Bible wouldn’t be given a clean bill of mental health."

Written by Haydon Spenceley

Ridding myself of the shoulds

// I know I should be content, but I'd like some more stuff please.

Written by Katherine Maxwell-Rose

A better way to talk about churches

// Adapted from 'A BETTER WAY: DURHAM'

Written by Nick Harris

A place of greater safety

// Where two or more are gathered online, discussion of Christian leaders’ misdemeanours will be among them.

Written by Vicky Walker

The Scottish referendum: the end of the world as we know it?

// You'll not find any Braveheart references here.

Written by Noel Slevin

Why there’s no such thing as “real” womanhood

// If you are a man, you are a real man. If you are a woman, you are a real woman.

Written by Sarah Bessey

Watching the world fall apart

// "Truth is, sometimes I'm so overwhelmed by the scale of people's suffering that I want to run and hide."

Written by Tomi Ajayi

Nobody wants your sympathy

// I realised this year that I have no time for it.

Written by Jendella Benson

Does matter matter?

// Reconciling the uncertainty of quantum physics and God.

Written by Gillian Straine