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Nicholas Henshall: How I Write
GUEST BLOG: What is Nicholas Henshall’s secret to writing effectively?
Most of my writing comes from a passionate concern to get a message acros...

UPDATED: The Christian Booksellers dispatching books during Coronavirus Lockdown
Christian bookshops are fighting for their survival. Now more than ever they need us to shop with them. Despite having to close their doors, many a...

Pandemic Theology: An Engineer’s Guide to Truth
GUEST BLOG: Peter Bold draws on his engineering career as well as his faith in considering how groups can come together and listen to each other to...

May #BookOfTheMonth: The Blue Pencil
A thrilling story of Nazi appeasement and sympathy at the highest levels of British government in the days leading up to the Second World War – dis...

The Coronavirus and Liminal Space
WATCH: How do we make sense of what is happening to us as a world community as the coronavirus spreads across the globe?
For over thirty yea...

Finding God Pitched Among Us
GUEST BLOG: Benjamin Carter heads to the countryside (in spirit, at least) to explain the origins of God’s Tent, an exciting new pattern for rural ...

Coronavirus: Changing the Way We Listen to Nature
GUEST BLOG: The consequence of this global crisis will be a new-found respect for the natural world, suggests Frances Ward.
It’s six weeks or so...

Stay Connected, Pray Connected
GUEST BLOG: Rosie Deedes finds parallels between the current lockdown and her experience of prison life from her time as a chaplain, and explores w...

Hunkering Down during Lockdown
GUEST BLOG: Jon Grogan reflects on how he has adapted his expectations over the past few weeks to maintain a healthy perspective on life in lockdow...

The Beginnings of an Artist
GUEST BLOG: What are the makings of a professional artist? #BookOfTheMonth author Stuart Fisher tells his story.
Image © Stuart Fisher
I hadn...

The Role of the Parsonage in Community Life
GUEST BLOG: Anthony Jennings uses this enforced pause-for-thought to consider the role of the parsonage in Church and community life, especially du...

Seventy-Five Years On: The Durham Light Infantry and the Belsen Concentration Camp
GUEST BLOG: To mark the 75th anniversary of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp’s liberation, David Lowther retells the grisly story of what the B...

A Prayer about the Coronavirus
A prayer by Richard Noble in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Father God,
as people and nations of the world,
help us to realise our ...

Good Friday Sermon from Jenny Wilson
WATCH: Here is Jenny Wilson’s sermon broadcast from St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide, on Good Friday.
Jenny Wilson is Canon Precentor of St Pe...

A Butterfly in the Pandemic
Lyn McCrave shares two poems responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Butterfly in the Pandemic
Today, a butterfly,
the first of the year,...

Faithful Shepherd, Feed Me
GUEST BLOG: Robert Beaken looks for ways for Christians to keep nourishing their souls in the twenty-first century.
One of my heroes is Bishop E...

A Prayer for a Time Such as This
A prayer by David Grieve seeking light in the darkness of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Be present to me, Lord God,
in dark hours of daylight.
...

Coronavirus and Jesus Healing the Blind Man
WATCH: This is the sermon that Jenny Wilson preached at St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide, on 22 March, just after it was announced that the cathedral...

How to Be a Hermit: Lockdown Lessons from St Cuthbert
St Cuthbert is, of course, the patron saint of self-isolators. He spent eight years on Inner Farne, a small island off the coast of Northumberland,...

April #BookOfTheMonth: Mostly Durham
Pay a visit to the beautiful historic city of Durham from the safety of your home with our April #BookOfTheMonth.
“Generations of painters have ...