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March 2017

March 07, 2017
Dear God, Today I am not sure you exist, but I'm praying anyway. It seems...

February 2017

February 05, 2017
This guest post was written by Adam Couchman If I look through a kaleidoscope, I...

January 2017

January 17, 2017
Some days I find it really hard to believe in God. I sit in church...

December 2016

December 31, 2016
2016 hasn't been the best of years, has it? At least for those within the same socio-economic-political bubble...
December 23, 2016
  This guest post was written by Katie van Santen How you think of the...
December 20, 2016
This guest post was written by Adam Couchman December 21st, in the northern hemisphere, is...

September 2016

September 18, 2016
In a time of extreme rationalism and extreme religion, with anti-religious sentiments at an all-time...
September 05, 2016
This guest post was written by James Parsons. Millions of dollars are spent every year...

August 2016

August 31, 2016
Greenbelt is my happy place. It is an explosive celebration of humanity; a vibrant patchwork bursting at...
August 14, 2016
In his sermon last Sunday morning, our pastor was highlighting different aspects of modern life that...

July 2016

July 28, 2016
Terrorism has been dominating the news lately. There are terrorist attacks happening daily worldwide which go largely...
July 24, 2016
If someone was to ask me to sum up the message of Jesus in a...
July 10, 2016
My brother, Simon, is a year-and-a-half younger than me and, like me, had a happy Christian...

June 2016

June 13, 2016
I've just seen a news article showing the faces of those killed in the Pulse Night...
June 12, 2016
On today of all days, there are some things I need you to know. You are...
June 05, 2016
Atonement theories like Penal Substitution and Christus Victor are not exactly the most straightforward concepts...

April 2016

April 27, 2016
A common criticism of people like me who openly oppose Penal Substitutionary Atonement theory is that we...
April 21, 2016
So I've had a good go at butchering Penal Substitutionary Atonement theory - the idea...
April 19, 2016
Sorry about the title - I had to get your attention somehow. Seriously - if...
April 06, 2016
The Bible is part of an ongoing story of God moving towards his people, and...

February 2016

February 25, 2016
A few months ago I organised my thoughts on Christianity and homosexuality in a post called I...

November 2015

November 26, 2015
"I want everyone in the world to know what is happening in Britain. People are...
November 19, 2015
1. When atrocities like this happen so close to home, we sit up and pay...

October 2015

October 13, 2015
'Sin' is one of those odd, stuffy-sounding Christian words that nowadays means very little outside...
October 07, 2015
What if the message of Jesus that is widely understood by Christians is a distorted version...

September 2015

September 28, 2015
Growing up in church I knew the Christian message back to front. It was my reality,...
September 26, 2015
Over the last ten years my Christian faith has undergone a dramatic transformation. The beliefs...
September 22, 2015
I am a born worrier. It's in my nature, it's how I am programmed. If...
September 16, 2015
There is something about human nature that makes us virtually incapable of appreciating what we have. We...
September 13, 2015
There is this idea ingrained deep in the British psyche that feelings and emotions aren't important....
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