Regular Columns

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  Politics and policy

  Get out there, believer...

  A general election is on the horizon. The electoral machine is ...

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  Pastoral care

  The God of small things

  There are days when the to-do list does not feel very ...

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  Comment

  Whether sport or music or gaming, let’s join the dots

  Every Thursday evening, I drive from choir practice to swim training, ...

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  Culture Watch

  Leaving sex to birds & bees

  It’s a universal truth that the moment your parents happen to ...

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  Comment

  The irony of our Decembers

  I have a friend who once told me that, in the ...

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  Earth watch

  Are we doomed?

  ‘We’re doomed’, a catchphrase familiar to viewers of Dad’s Army, might ...

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  Comment

  Would Jesus’ preaching pass muster in your church?

  Imagine that your church has slipped through a time warp and ...

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  Safeguarding Briefing

  How do proposals on mandatory reporting of abuse affect me?

  Content warning: this post contains information about responding ...

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  Comment

  Taylor Swift and what she tells us about ourselves

  They say you can tell a lot about a society by ...

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  Cartoon

  Cartoon

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  Defending our faith

  The Christmas villain

  Children’s nativity plays, up and down the land, are blessed with ...

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  The ENd word

  Out of the muck & madness...

  A genealogy doesn’t seem a great way to start off a ...

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  Everyday Evangelism

  Invitation to festive joy

  Every year for the last 12, Speak Life has put out ...

• History

  ‘Lived faithfully a hidden life’

  As we noted in last month’s column, Benjamin Beddome, the 18th-century ...