Who’s got all the answers? Not us, that’s for sure. But ignoring the questions doesn’t make them go away – or nurture intelligent faith. So here’s our space for comment, diversity and debate. At threads, we want to treat each other the way we’d like to be treated. So please comment respectfully.
In Eastenders, the only regular Christian character is a chain-smoking, loopy old bat, intended for ridicule.
A spiritual atheist finds all the pomp, spectacle and ritual of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral utterly bizarre.
Science is beginning to understand how what we experience – both physically and emotionally – can substantially change who we are at the most basic level, our DNA.
How do I bring a child into this progressive, post-modern, post-evangelical, post-Christendom Christianity?
I want to live in a better world and hate religion that gets in the way of that.
The word ‘Israel’ is on nearly every page of our Bibles. Yet few Christians give today’s modern state a second thought.
Until the 1970s, the accepted evangelical position on abortion in the USA was one that we would call ‘pro-choice’, which would be almost unthinkable now.
Being human and sexual offending is complicated; does an evil act make someone pure evil?
I would find it odd going to a Church of Women, a Manchester United Supporters’ church, the Church of the Uncool, or the Church of the Latter-Day Take That lovers.
Why are we expected to plan for children only once we’ve married?