Life

• 80 years after Kristallnacht: Why Jews keep the 'commandments'

  Even nowadays, some mitzvot can only be carried out in the Land of Israel, but that still leaves Jews in the Diaspora with a few hundred mitzvot that we should carry out daily.

• Are parents getting it right in teaching children the faith?

  I've often heard it said that many Christian parents expect the church's Sunday school or youth group to be the main teacher of faith in their child's life.

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  21-year-old explains why she's saving herself for marriage

  A 21-year-old woman has explained why she is going against the cultural grain and saving herself for marriage.

• Why your church leader matters less than you think

  All of them had the quality of caring more than others than they did about themselves, and of being personally nurtured and upbuilt by giving rather than receiving.

• Churches called to mark Adoption Sunday

  The campaign comes at a time when there is a need for a further 8,100 foster carers to meet the need in the UK. In England.

• Heckling Jeff Sessions: Lessons about patience from a pastor's protest

  We've recently had to start a new list in our house. It's not my son's letter to Santa, that started back in March. This is a list of 'banned words'.

• £10,000 prize for Tonbridge church in Ecclesiastical volunteering competition

  Ecclesiastical, the UK's leading church insurer, ran the competition to celebrate the role of church volunteers who devote their time and energy to support their local communities and church.

• Seafarers in crisis: How a Christian ministry is dealing with the fallout from piracy and abandonment

  Sailors' Society's Crisis Response Network (CRN) provided support to its 100th case this week, with piracy, death at sea and abandonment accounting for almost two-thirds (59 per cent) of those supported.

• Churches and Christians urged to pray for the media

  The initiative is being promoted by Christians in Media, a UK network and community that supports, encourages and inspires Christians who work in, and with, media.

• 'Practise hospitality': The gospel witness of a home where people can be real

  I've found myself caring a little bit less about the state of my house and a little bit more about the state of my heart.

• Bring on the ghouls and zombies: Why I'm embracing Halloween this year

  As Maya Angelou said: 'If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.'

• Brexit, sex and science: can we challenge the fake news?

  Two sides, two views, and who is working to reconcile them and to listen to the other? Who will include the excluded, on either side? And what really is the truth?

• Light Parties: Is the church's alternative to Halloween really a good idea?

  There is a wisdom in resisting the church's move to seize All Hallows Eve for evangelistic purposes.

• The messy business of loving people: Why Bob Goff told me to get a puppy

  Two years ago my life was interrupted by an experience of Love I still struggle to explain.

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  What being pulled over by the police taught me about sin

  A few weeks ago, I was pulled over by a police officer. I had my kids in the car and we were late for school. I was in a hurry and there was a car next to me, so I was not able to move over into the car pool lane.