Life

• Why run a half marathon just 2 months after finishing breast cancer treatment – in Bethlehem?

  Just two months after she'd finished chemotherapy for breast cancer, 49-year-old Su McClellan was taking part in a half marathon.

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  4 reasons to visit the Sistine Chapel

  (Partner Post) Traveling is a very enjoyable thing to do, but enjoyment is not the sole purpose of travel for many people. It can also be a very enriching experience and it can greatly help in one's personal growth. Travel helps you change in many ways and the places you visit will always contribute to who you are – no matter what your original reason for traveling is.

• Assumptions Christians make about God when life falls apart

  Still groggy from the anaesthesia, I was ushered into a small, lifeless room where I was given the news. They'd found a large tumour that was either cancer or lymphoma.

• William Blake: The Christian prophet determined to open our immortal eyes

  On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered in a damp, London cemetery called Bunhill Fields for the unveiling of a gravestone.

• It's personal: What I learned about God from a helpdesk

  God wants us to know we are not alone and he often does that through others.

• St Lawrence: The Christian martyr who died telling a joke

  Today is the feast day of St Lawrence (225-258), one of the earliest Christian martyrs and one of the few who died telling a joke.

• Language lessons: Why is learning to speak Christian so hard?

  None of us grows up speaking 'Christian' as a native. It's a language that has to be learned.

• Cathedral cat immortalised in stone

  A stray cat that wandered into a London cathedral a decade ago has been immortalised in the building's stone renovations, the first addition in 200 years.

• What is my calling? How to discern without a burning bush

  A while ago I listened to a sermon about saying 'yes' to God's call in which the pastor asked us how we would respond if we had a burning bush moment.

• The ministry of wellbeing: How beauty therapy and chillout zones are changing lives

  With a team of volunteers, Sarah Milligan runs two Wellbeing clinics that cater for hundreds of people who are struggling with mental health and emotional needs.

• 'All things work together for good' – but a ruptured appendix?

  Many of my lovely and well-meaning Christian friends suggested my illness was God's way of slowing me down and causing me to rest.

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  How consolidation can equate to effective debt relief

  (Partner Post) There are many people these days who are struggling with high levels of debt.

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  Finding the perfect fashion gift for a Christian loved one

  (Partner Post) Buying gifts for people can be difficult at the best of times so if you are purchasing a gift for a Christian loved one, you may be struggling with regards to what you should buy.

• Growing children in faith: How to read Scripture as a family

  Last week I met an inspirational lady who survived a prison camp because of the way she clung to the truths she had memorised from Scripture.

• August 6, 1945: A prayer for Hiroshima Day

  On August 6, 1945, the Little Boy atomic bomb was dropped from the US Air Force B-29 bomber Enola Gay on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.