Myth 9: ‘Working really hard will earn me favour with God’

// Although I am a product of a me-centred culture I also share a big chunk of the blame.

Written by Chris Buttenshaw

Standing by and watching as Syrian children burn…

// Peace in our time? Not for the people of Syria.

Written by Danny Webster

Syria: Is this love?

// I am lost in lament for all this death and brokenness. I feel so powerless. Surely there is some alternative...

Written by Paul Rose

Sorry mate, company policy

// Unfortunately, there was a problem.

Written by Matt White

Ecce homo: the path of male greatness

// To round off our 'male takeover' week, Ben Harding asks where true manhood lies...

Written by threads

We don’t know God

// What if there's more to faith than knowledge? What if it's about letting go of the need to know?

Written by Haydon Spenceley

20th century boy, 21st century man

// Worried about Jesus 'being your girlfriend'? It's worse than that – he's your bridegroom, bro!

Written by Dave Griffiths

My wife is not the only hot woman on earth

// Closed systems and open minds: advice to couples on valuing the hotness of others.

Written by Jonty Langley

Male vanity and why we need to kill it

// Bearded and smooth, tough and tender, sporty and arty – you can be all and none and still be a...

Written by Dave Griffiths

Jesus wasn’t hot

// Jesus probably wouldn't have been cast in a movie to play himself. He wouldn't ave been deemed pretty enough.

Written by Chine McDonald

Beauty is a battlefield

// Do we defy the conventions of beauty and just not try anymore, daring the people around us to love us...

Written by Christine Gilland

Don’t call me beautiful on my wedding day

// Like almost every other bride, I’ve been seduced by the lie that I have to look perfect in my wedding...

Written by Ruth Mawhinney

Video: What’s hot?

// What's hot? What's attractive? What's beautiful? Clearly it's all in the eye of the beholder. We took to the streets...

Written by threads

On freedom and armpit hair

// The average woman shaves 7,718 times in her life for an average of 10.9 minutes a-go.

Written by Mim Skinner

The sidebar of shame

// You didn’t mean to go there. The site just lured you in. Soon you’re clicking away frantically trying to get...

Written by Ruth Garner

3 terrible attitudes to hotness that have no place in a smart person’s mind

// Yes, the emphasis our society puts on beauty is disproportionate, but let's not throw the babes out with the bathwater.

Written by Jonty Langley

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

New Horizon – A better way: for relationships

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Written by threads