Search results

Reading an online Guardian article I came across the phrase 'cod theology' and I have no idea what it means. Strangely I can't seem to find a definition of it anywhere online, but the phrase itself seems to keep cropping up in search results - often in mainstream journalistic and academic texts...

This is really written from a Christian perspective, and I'd like to ask for advice ideally from a Christian perspective too. Please don't be offended by this; I just want to do what's right by God and other people. I'm trying to get rid of a Nintendo Gameboy Colour. I think I owned it since...

I've been told that I have a ministerial gift for "people". Although I'm not the 'popular girl' either in church or out, and I'm in nobody's 'inner circle', I find myself not infrequently consoling people and offering them advice. This carries relational risks and I take them: I've never been...

Some might know already, but I'm a Christian daughter of non-Christian parents (and a non-Christian brother) who have tolerated my faith for 10 years and are starting to lose patience with me. I'm 24 years old, fresh out of college, and due to the jobs market being what it is, I've struggled to...

I'm feeling a little discouraged right now, and I'd really like support. For the past ten years my mum has usually been okay about my faith, and usually acts as a buffer against my dad who gets really keyed up about it, but she said tonight that she was worried, and that worries me, because mum...

I'm from an atheist family, and I accepted Christ as a teen through the witness of a classmate. Having re-read Proverbs 31, I'm trying to think about how to prepare to build a Christian home once I move out of my atheist parents' home. Although I owe my parents respect for their efforts, my...

I am largely what you would consider a conservative Christian. There aren't many of us in Britain, and that's where I am. I have a gift for music and singing, and I would like to sing for weddings as a way of getting by while I'm struggling to find a job. I've sung/played for a few before and...

It seems apparent to me that not all composers who composed church music would have been believers themselves, and I really want to find out those who do. I'm always amazed to hear how many composers and artists in general led flagrantly immoral lives. People like Caravaggio created the most...

I broke up with my ex two months ago after an 17-month relationship because our personalities and life goals weren't right for each other. We were dating for marriage; it was either prepare to marry or split up. We didn't want to waste any more of each other's time. I was too emotionally...

If like MaddieD I had something like very mild autism, a lot of things would slot into place, but as it stands, I'm just socially awkward and 'different' in a way that inexplicably seems to repel people (but not because I don't wash or have bad breath or anything like that). A child of atheist...