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A Word for Today
If people look at us blankly when we talk about what we believe, is it because we’re not using the right words? And if people don’t understand the word ‘repentance’ what should we use instead? Laurence Singlehurst provides insight into how we can make the gospel make sense in a changing world.
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Thriving, not surviving
This summer Martin Saunders visited the Soul Survivor festival to discover why it has become an irresistible force in UK youth ministry...
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What's your story?
John Buckeridge considers what might happen when we are available to God.
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Weather the Storms
Life isn’t easy, says Steve Chalke, our trouble is that we think it should be
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Not so super
The US businessman who has funded a movie about William Wilberforce perplexes John Buckeridge.
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Is the traffick slowing?
The bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in 2007 saw the launch of a campaign calling the UK Church to take notice of the reality that thousands of people are trafficked onto our shores every year for sexual exploitation. Nearly two years on, has it achieved anything? How is the Church responding to this still live issue of tragic injustice?
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Single-minded
A single woman looking for a Christian husband has an uphill struggle. Alison Dorricott tells John Buckeridge where she looked for Mr Right.
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The sound of silence
Our walk with God needs to include some time for pause and reflection. But it’s daunting, writes Steve Chalke, because in stillness we are confronted with the honest truth about ourselves
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He wants sex more than I do
How do you overcome vast differences in sexual appetite? My husband seems to want sex all the time and I just can’t keep up. I do enjoy it when I feel in the mood, but we are doing it so often that I now regularly just do the proverbial ‘lie back and think of England’!
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Archive contentSex and singles
I am now in my 30s and a virgin. Even though I believe that being a virgin has been the right thing, I dread the day one of my secular friends or acquaintances brings up the sex topic in relation to me. How can I deal with this?
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Can I use sex toys?
Agony Aunt Maggie Ellis answers readers' questions on sex and relationships...
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Archive contentSun, sea and starvation
Lucinda Borkett-Jones travels to Malawi to find out how the world is going hungry while the planet heats up.
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Seeking Sanctuary
Thousands of asylum seekers in the UK are destitute, marginalised and fear for their lives. Ruth Dickinson finds out what you can do to help the strangers on your doorstep.
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said sorry
Rev Nims Obunge chief executive of the Peace Alliance tells Joanne Appleton how the day he said sorry to the council changed things in Haringey.
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Archive contentI was raped as a teenager
At the age of 16 I was suffering with depression. Things got so bad I tried to OD on my anti depressants but I was suddenly filled with fear so I went to my church youth worker, I passed out just after I arrived. The next thing I remember is waking up with him touching me. He told me that if I ever told anyone what he had done then he would tell my family about my OD. He then raped me. I tried to avoid him from then on but he managed to find ways to get me on my own and he did it again a number of times...
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More Sex Questions
Maggie Ellis tackles three different sexual issues, including lust and female orgasms...
