Why young women fear dating

‘I am increasingly convinced that only by targeting that industry can we begin to heal the gender divide, because as long as porn consumption is normative, relationships will be risky and genuine trust and intimacy impossible.’

Why Do Christians Still Feel Depressed?

This is an extract from the writing of CH Spurgeon, who suffered with depression himself.

A word of caution about the ‘Quiet Revival’ in the UK

David Robertson offers his take on the quiet revival. For the most part, I agree with him here.

Rehabilitating ministers?

There are different views on the possibility of restoration for failed pastor-ministers. This is one such position.

Hope For Perfectionists

I learnt a long time ago that I am not a perfectionist. Even so, I can recognise some of the traits in myself that Adam outlines in his opening gambit. He helpfully goes on to give some biblical counsel to help us with those traits, whether we are perfectionists or struggle with them for altogether different reasons.

Churchiness Is Back

I was recently speaking about this very thing. Here, Trevin Wax takes up the point: ‘No matter the style—liturgical or charismatic—the worst decision a church could make would be to diminish its otherworldliness, its strangeness, because we would be discarding our role as a conduit of God’s light for the nations. We would undermine our best appeal to people who, whether they consciously recognize it or not, need deliverance from the self rather than through the self.’

From the archive: Accessibility: I don’t think that word means what you think it means

‘We could multiply this question to loads of what we do as churches. We all claim we want to be accessible, but when the answer to the question of accessibility is Bavinck’s 4-volume Reformed Dogmatics, I can’t help but think we have misunderstood the question.’