Expanding the Bible text into everyday language can bring new ways into the text – find out more here from Martin Manser

Désiré Majambere explains why all Burundians carry wounds in their hearts and how the peacebuilding work of Tearfund and its partners is working out.

Krish Kandiah unpacks the traditional Christmas story via 5 groups of people seeking or offering hospitality

Sleepers Wake, the advent book by Nicholas Holtam, calls us to get serious and pay attention to the spirituality of climate change. Nicholas sets out God’s call here.

While presidents and kings decide whether to go to COP27, or not, here are ways for Christians to get involved and raise the profile #COP27

Steve Harrison from 422 Manchester inspires us as he describes the project’s Christian roots and practical outreach.

Discover more about the significance of the Queen’s faith in the book Defenders of the Faith, reviewed here by Peter Crumpler.

Moses and leadership: a book review by Julie Craythorne

When planning a preaching series on Romans, Jonny Gumbel thought it would take a year – three and a half years later he had covered one theme: love.

Church unity across social, spiritual and cultural areas is what the Gather Movement explores and builds on. Andy Frost invites us to find out more.

Naomi Lawson Jacobs and Emily Richardson share their vision for disabled people in churches transformed by the Holy Spirit into places of justice and equality.

MAF have a new set of free Bible studies that align with the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and with the work MAF does in aid relief and development worldwide.

Festival goers were set to race against the clock in the Family Bible Challenge set by the Bible Society team

God’s Plan A is the local church by Rev John & Anne Coles

Insights into honey-making and harmony In the beehive by Peter Knatt

The Spirit at Pentecost spread from 120 disciples to 3000 new believers in a day, Simon Gibbes suggests the Spirit was for community and equality then, and now as we live out the call for justice at home in the UK and worldwide.

The Queen – an extraordinary public servant, an exemplary disciple – says Mark Greene

Facing up to class divides in our churches with Paul Brown and Natalie Williams

Navigating eating disorders in church environments by Hope Virgo, author and mental health campaigner

Writing about disability from a first-hand perspective, Dr Amy Kenny describes a conversation and an attitude within the church, the body of Christ, that is deeply hurtful.