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On choosing a Christmas diet

December 11, 2018 by Alice Brown

Here is a scary question: in the average day, how much time do you spend thinking about food? As Christmas looms, most of us spend even more time than usual thinking about menus. Who and what will you serve this festive season? There’s endless inspiration…

Biblical friendship (part 3): Cultivating friendship

December 9, 2018 by Caitlin Orr

In part 1 and part 2, we looked at what a true friend is, and how Jesus is the ultimate friend. Now we’re going to think about how to cultivate biblical friendships through the lens of one of the great friendships recorded in the Bible: Jonathan and…

Your gut is wrong

December 4, 2018 by Mike Leite

The gut plays a very important role in the day-to-day life of those born after 1980. For one, these generations are obsessed with food, with every second meal being posted on Instagram and every second TV show relating to food. But the gut also…

Biblical friendship (part 2): Being a friend

December 5, 2018December 2, 2018 by Caitlin Orr

In part 1 we looked at John 15 and saw that a friend is loving, sacrificial and outward looking. The book of Proverbs fleshes out this picture of what it means to be a friend. Proverbs is immensely helpful in thinking through the issue of friendship,…

Evangelism: What is it?

November 27, 2018 by ACR Team

‘Evangelism’ has recently risen to the status of what Stephen Potter would call an “OK word”: to utter it is to be ecclesiastically ‘one up’ straight away. (Things were different 20 years ago.) The term stands for something that the modern church…

Feminism and faith: Some further thoughts

November 13, 2018 by Christine Bransdon

This is the second part of Christine’s article. The first part can be found here. I have invested a lot of effort in researching feminism and trying to express why I think it is at odds with Christianity. I’ve struggled to reconcile the…

Making sense of feminism and faith

November 11, 2018 by Christine Bransdon

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a name that is currently dominating feminist Instagram. Despite her youth, gender, and ethnicity, she has just been elected to Congress in the mid-term elections. After she won the democratic primary in June,…