Martin Saunders

• Planning a World Cup 'outreach' event? Then please, do it right, and plan it now...

  6 tips to plan your ideal church event at the FIFA World Cup

• Jim Bakker's TV show amounts to spiritual abuse – so why is he still broadcasting?

  If one thing is sadly clear from watching far too much late-night Christian television, it's that some believers are painfully gullible, and easily led.

• Avengers: Infinity War review: Discomfort for Christians and sympathy for the devil

  The story, which somehow weaves together more than 20 different heroic characters and pulls in plot strands from 10 years of the MCU, stretches right across the universe

• Avengers: Infinity War - should I take my kids?

  It's practically the movie to end all others; the most excitingly-anticipated, over-hyped cinematic event of all time... at least until next year's sequel.

• Finding the line: When does a prayer request become gossip?

  Christians aren't generally fuzzy on the concept of gossip. We know it's wrong; Paul talks about 'no corrupting talk' coming out of our mouths.

• The spiritual gift of friendship: How to be 100% 'for' someone else

  The British comedian Jason Manford once observed the difference between UK and US approaches to friendship, and particularly that between males.

• How do you actually 'speak the truth in love'?

  We struggle to 'speak the truth in love' for a whole range of reasons from busyness to blundering, but most of the time we fail to deliver helpful feedback to each other because we just don't think about it in advance.

• Singing priest wows Simon Cowell – what does the public reaction tell us?

  Fr Ray Kelly enraptured, surprised and delighted the show's packed audition theatre – and millions of television viewers – with an extraordinary rendition of REM's 'Everybody Hurts'.

• Avoiding brokenness: 6 words only Christian use that make no sense to anyone else

  Beyond the obvious register of believer jargon, there's another set of words which are a bit more problematic.

• Struggle with cynicism? Here's how you might just beat it

  The truth is that if you want to look for it, there's plenty wrong with every church, every charity, and every Christian.

• Sweet Jesus: is the Canadian ice cream brand blasphemous, irrelevant...or an opportunity?

  Does a secular company, naming itself after a semi-blasphemous exclamation, really make any impact on the status of the Christian faith in modern Canada, or more importantly on God himself?

• 'Christianity ruined my life': Rock star slams his former faith, but who's really to blame?

  We elevate celebrities just as much within the church as we do outside it, and yet we don't really know what to do when they don't live up to our rather unrealistic expectations of them.