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Archive contentMy Headcovering Experiment
The controversial Islamic teaching that women should cover their heads is often viewed as oppressive. Yet, until recently, head coverings were not uncommon among Christian women. Is this an outdated, sexist concept? Heather Tomlinson dons a headscarf to find out.
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Archive contentThe Sceptic: Why religion poisons everything
Journalist Christopher Hitchens passed away nearly three years ago. Justin Brierley reflects on the atheist’s most famous attack on religion in his book God Is Not Great.
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Archive contentMale and female he created them?
Our resident theologian David Instone-Brewer explores what the Bible has to say on gender and transgender issues.
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Archive contentThe female cost of war
Across the globe, women are often the worst affected, yet most neglected, victims of war. Joy Tibbs reports.
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Archive contentNo sex in the city
A lack of honest conversation in the Church about sex led Carrie Lloyd to re-evaluate what sex was all about. Was it really worth saving for marriage?
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Archive contentAre boobs news?
Christian feminism isn’t scary. Hannah Mudge reveals the naked truth about how women are represented in the media, society and the Church.
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Archive contentSchool shooting averted as bookkeeper tells attacker, 'I love you'.
Antoinette Tuff was on reception cover at a school in DeKalb, Georgia, when gunman Michael Hill burst in and announced: ‘We’re all going to die today!’
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Archive contentThe Apologist: Is Christianity bad for you?
Religion can be poisonous but Christ is the cure, says Vince Vitale, as he answers two key questions raised by Christopher Hitchens’ book God is Not Great.
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Archive content'Abort it and try again'
There has been a revolution in attitudes towards disability in recent years. Yet Richard Dawkins’ recent recommendation to abort a foetus with a disability points to a contradictory zeitgeist.
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Archive contentGive me Wisdom
A friend of mine is a politician. He tells the story that one year in mid-December a journalist from the local newspaper rang him and asked: ‘What would you like for Christmas?’
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Archive contentLife before Adam?
Continuing his series on science and the Bible, David Instone-Brewer takes a closer look at what Genesis reveals about the origins of humankind.
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Archive contentThe Leftovers
Armageddon is back this autumn. As the Left Behind film hits cinemas, a new American TV show explores what might happen if 140 million people simply disappeared at once. Is this apocalyptic story likely to leave British audiences ‘enraptured’?
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Archive contentImmigration: Gain or Drain?
As political parties wrangle over immigration, Steve Bell of Interserve argues Christians should embrace its evangelistic opportunities
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Archive contentMake your retirement count for Christ
What would you do if all of the over-60s in your church suddenly stopped turning up for duty?
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Archive contentBack from the Brink
Until 1994, A&E registrar Cathy Wield considered depression a sign of weakness. She never imagined that a mental health condition could result in her losing her job, her family and even her own life, but that’s what very nearly happened
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Archive contentAvoiding Preaching Pitfalls
Rev Canon J.John, evangelist and founder of the Philo Trust, has delivered more than 7,000 sermons over a 34-year period. In eight simple steps, he explains how never to deliver a duff sermon again.
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Archive contentGuillaume Bignon: From staunch atheist to Christian theologian
In the first of a new regular testimony feature, we hear how a series of unusual experiences led Parisian atheist Guillaume Bignon on an intellectual journey to Christ.
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The Sceptic: The Man who wants to turn you into an atheist
If you need proof that atheism is becoming ever more evangelistic, look no further than Peter Boghossian’s book A Manual for Creating Atheists. Justin Brierley spoke to the controversial philosophy tutor.
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Archive contentThe Apologist: Don't believe atheism's latest evangelist
Tim McGrew responds to Peter Boghossian’s determination to convert the faithful to atheism.
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Archive contentHas accountability had its day?
Accountability seems to have gone out of fashion in church circles. Claire Musters explores whether the practice has become obsolete.
