Life

• What's wrong with Jordan Peterson? 12 Rules for Life, and why they aren't

  Generally speaking, Peterson is loathed by liberals and loved by conservatives – including and especially Christian conservatives.

• In-tension-al faith: How God is for the journey as well as the moment

  Living life Jesus-style is about both season and journey: the moment and the marathon. It commits to the long haul and the dramatic encounter.

• UK Christian retreat centres: Where to go and recharge your spiritual batteries

  As well as the many exciting Christian festivals and conferences happening in the UK during 2019 we are also blessed with some wonderful Christian retreat centres, guest houses and hotels.

• I've lived with cancer: I know God can handle it when we scream at him

  I've learned screaming at God is never bad. He's big enough to handle it and I'm sure he'd rather I turned to him than anyone or anything else.

• After the Screaming Stops: Bros, fame and God

  'He was a rectangle and I was a rectangle and we made a square, which therefore is a fortress'.

• New beginnings: A sermon on Exodus 15-17

  As in Isaiah, in Genesis 1 and the following verses depicting the creation, the whole mood is one of anticipation. In order to allow Israel as a body to act, G-d constantly restrains her physically.

• Offerings doubled by contactless collections: Church of England digital giving scheme to go nationwide

  The successful trial of contactless offerings in the Church of England has led to an extension of the scheme across England and Wales, according to the company behind it.

• Blue Monday: What does the Bible say?

  Today is Blue Monday, the day of the year when we're all supposed to be at our most miserable.

• The Jericho road: Jesus' parable is about transformation, not charity

  Jesus deliberately set his parable on the Jericho road because it was 17 miles of violence and oppression.

• #ThingsDisabledPeopleKnow: Churches aren't good with disability

  Tweets included ones like the old chestnut, 'No, praying for me won't make a difference.'

• Archbishop of Canterbury: 'I pray in tongues every day'

  'In my own prayer life and as part of my daily discipline I pray in tongues every day – not as an occasional thing, but as part of daily prayer.'

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  How to break free from the feeling of 'if only'

  The widest river in the world is not the Mississippi, Amazon, or Nile. The widest river on earth is a body of water called If Only.

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  What Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz said to his 9-year-old son when he said he didn't feel like going to church

  When Hillsong NYC Pastor Carl Lentz's son, Roman, honestly confronted his father about not wanting to attend church, the father-of-three used the opportunity to teach his young son a valuable life lesson.

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  Hectic schedules are leaving women feeling tired and overwhelmed - survey

  More than half of women feel overwhelmed by the number of things on their to-do list, a new survey has found.

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  Emotional impact of divorce on children varies according to age

  The emotional toll of divorce is greater on children who were in late childhood or early adolescence when their parents split up, a study has found.