Life

Young people have a love-hate relationship with tech in the digital age
Today, when digital surveillance is higher than ever, there is a hollowing out of learning, a shallowness that comes with abuses of privacy and surveillance and from a loss of cherished human contact.

A picture of marital bliss? Survey finds many married couples are happy
The headlines around high divorce rates and celeb couples breaking up may be more familiar, but a Sunday Times survey has found that many married couples are happy in their unions.

Why are school lunches still so unhealthy?
Teenagers in the UK consume poor quality diets, low in nutrients and high in processed foods.

Faith, food and fasting
Of course God has given us food to enjoy and we should enjoy it. This is not about putting a guilt trip on anyone or being legalistic but we should make sure we have the balance right.

Turning suffering into joy
Most people, regardless of their culture or background, agree that human beings ought not to suffer, be excluded, die of injustice. So how do we make sense of these realities?

Are we just physical beings or is there more to us than that?
Scientist and apologist Dr Sharon Dirckx talks to Christian Today about the limits of the popular idea that we are little more than a series of chemical reactions and why the evidence stacks up for a more meaningful explanation.

Evangelicals are knowledgeable about their own religion, less so about other faiths - poll
When trying to answer questions about other world religions (Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and global religious demography), Christian respondents did not fare as well as Jews, atheists, and agnostics.

A Christian response to compassion fatigue
It's as if a need that demands our response can jump out from behind a corner at any second, asking us to show compassion.

Same ****, different day?
Holidays are great but if day to day life is rubbish, they won't help much, they're just a temporary respite.

The man you're made to be
Say what you like about that old vision of masculinity though, at least it was clear, writes Martin Saunders

Mothers are the drivers of their kids' faith more than fathers - study
Christians in America are more likely to say it was their mother's faith that influenced them rather than their father's, although research has found that grandparents are significant too.

Did I marry the wrong person?
Most people don't have the emotional maturity or awareness to recognize that they contribute to their marital problems just as much as the other person

The fine balance between remembering the past and living in it
As much as I would like to dwell in the good memories from the glory days, I need to accept and embrace the season that I'm in now.

Just when you think you're safe
In a second, you can watch the things you love most go up in smoke. Let that sink in.

Drifting from church
The fact is, we had not been to this particular church for quite a few weeks. After failing to really blend in with the systems of this church, we had just kind of ... fallen away.

Moral science confirms people behave better when they think they're being watched
Even a poster with eyes on it changes how people behave.