Life

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  If God made everything, then who made God? Apologist answers

  Astrophysicist Hugh Ross of the Christian apologetics group Reasons to Believe has recently tackled the question of who or what created God.

• More than justice: Why homeless people don't just need homes

  Eighteen years ago my first marriage ended. My three daughters and I had to leave our family home and register as homeless.

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  NHS hopes to dispel myths around organ donation during Interfaith Week

  The NHS is using Interfaith Week to engage with faith communities about organ donation.

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  Destiny's Child's Michelle Williams and fiance Pastor Chad Johnson say key to marriage is: 'pray before you speak'

  The couple said they wanted to do their new reality TV show as a different kind of ministry because they were surprised by how many people do not go to counselling prior to getting married.

• The secret to successful outreach: Just listen

  What makes community? How on earth do we build it and sustain it?

• Opium addict and derelict: The extraordinary life of Francis Thompson, Christian poet

  Francis Thompson is remembered for some of the greatest spiritual verse in the English language.

• Living waters: Why we need to pray for God to fill us to overflowing

  The gospel is for every day, not just the day we were saved, because all the time God is saying, come to me.

• Dare to Care: We should be kinder to each other, says Girls' Brigade film

  A Girls' Brigade mission initiative has launched a new film exploring the issue of kindness.

• Faith, patience and a thick skin: How ethical investment can change the world

  Archbishop Welby recognised that raising awareness of the inherent injustices of the UK tax and welfare system would far outweigh any criticism he may receive for his comments.

• It's a daily choice: How adoption shaped my view of love

  I would like to be able to say that love for my children happened all at once, but instead I'm learning what true love really means – and it has nothing to do with feelings.

• Beyond remembrance: Why we need to do something different with our future

  Our well-intentioned rationality does not change our hearts. Our good intentions are often just that.

• Is an armistice needed for divided nations and churches?

  We have witnessed the rise in populism and nationalism, not least across Europe but wider afield too.

• Church of Scotland releases eye-witness accounts of Kristallnacht

  The newly-released document contains 'truthful observations and trustworthy accounts by eye witnesses' to the wave of Nazi-orchestrated violence on November 9-10, 1938.

• The Spice Girls and Westlife can do it – sort of. Why can't Christians deal with comebacks?

  Maybe some doors are too heavy to hold open? Maybe some burnt bridges can't be rebuilt?

• Magazines show a village at war

  Parish magazines published in a Hertfordshire village from 1914 to 1918 reveal poignant insights into life in the rural community during the First World War.