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Hope that holds: How to gently walk with teenagers wrestling with life’s meaning
Hope that holds: How to gently walk with teenagers wrestling with life’s meaning

Whether you're a parent, mentor, youth leader or teacher, here are three ways we can show up for today’s youth.

Protecting girls and young women in the digital age
Protecting girls and young women in the digital age

It’s a missional priority for us as Christian communities to have open discussions about both the benefits and downsides of being online.

The Christian story behind Trafalgar Square’s Christmas tree
The Christian story behind Trafalgar Square’s Christmas tree

Every year Norway gifts a giant Norwegian pine Christmas tree to the British people. Standing tall in Trafalgar Square, this year’s tree feels especially significant as the world marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War.

Christianity under siege in the world’s oldest Christian nation
Christianity under siege in the world’s oldest Christian nation

The government of the world’s oldest Christian nation, the first to raise the Cross above the crescent and the hammer and sickle alike, now persecutes its own clergy. The message is chilling: faith itself is a political crime in Armenia.

What is really preventing peace between Israel and the Palestinians?
What is really preventing peace between Israel and the Palestinians?

There is a major roadblock on the way to peace but it's not what many of our church leaders think it is.

Heroes of rescue: from war’s frontlines to today’s fight for freedom
Heroes of rescue: from war’s frontlines to today’s fight for freedom

We may not be on a battlefield today, but we still live in what CS Lewis called ‘enemy-occupied territory’.

A Christian response to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's fall from grace
A Christian response to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's fall from grace

The danger we run into when we read the public reports of the misdeeds of some person who has become the object of public disgrace is that we become tempted to entertain the idea that we are somehow better in the eyes of God than that person

What Christian forgiveness looks like
What Christian forgiveness looks like

Forgiveness can feel naive, weak, even wrong. It sounds like we’re saying the wound doesn’t matter. But the cross of Christ shows us something infinitely deeper.

How to evangelise modern men
How to evangelise modern men

So, the problem: on the one hand, there is a dramatic rise of religious interest among men on both sides of the Atlantic; on the other, evangelical churches are negligently unfit to engage with these men.  

The Bible is a firm foundation in an ever-changing mission field
The Bible is a firm foundation in an ever-changing mission field

There is a growing cultural moment of openness and curiosity with the spiritual realm, and Christianity in particular. 

Five reasons why I’m choosing to be hopeful about the new Archbishop of Canterbury
Five reasons why I’m choosing to be hopeful about the new Archbishop of Canterbury

Judging by my social media and news feed, not everyone is enthusiastic about the choice of Sarah Mullally as the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Or maybe – outside church circles – even cares.

Charlie Kirk, a modern-day Abel
Charlie Kirk, a modern-day Abel

Charlie’s faith, like Abel’s, continues to speak.

Pray for Archbishop Sarah Mullally
Pray for Archbishop Sarah Mullally

Bishop Sarah Mullally faces an almost impossible task in service to the Church in her next role as Archbishop of Canterbury.

The problem with recognising Palestine
The problem with recognising Palestine

Christians (and hopefully others) have a responsibility to look beyond the superficial, and the memes, and dig a bit deeper.

God’s Book and the Quiet Revival: Helping people make sense of the toughest topics
God’s Book and the Quiet Revival: Helping people make sense of the toughest topics

It’s not about winning arguments. It’s about clearing obstacles so people can encounter Jesus in the pages of Scripture.

Disuniting the Kingdom – an open letter to evangelical signatories of the anti ‘Unite the Kingdom’ letter
Disuniting the Kingdom – an open letter to evangelical signatories of the anti ‘Unite the Kingdom’ letter

You say you are doing this unapologetically in the name of Jesus Christ. But which Christ? The Christ of the Scriptures or the Christ made in the image of progressive liberalism?