Life
Why your reusable coffee cup may be no better than a disposable
It can take between 20 and 100 uses for a reusable cup to offset its higher greenhouse gas emissions compared to a disposable, due to the greater amount of energy and material required to make a durable product and the hot water needed to wash them.
Can we love our actual neighbour?
From sleepless nights to intense love, two women can bond over the roller coaster of parenting littles. However, our relationship never got past a quick smile and hello as I would walk by her house.
What do we do when we've lost the passion for Christ we once had?
Whilst I've never experienced walking out on God; like many I've experienced low ebbs in my Christian journey.
Winning people, not arguments
Paul praised the Athenians on their good intent and didn't humiliate them. This is how he won people.
Grudges come naturally to kids â gratitude must be taught
Our results suggested that young children must learn the principle of direct reciprocity in order to apply it.
Young people have a love-hate relationship with tech in the digital age
Today, when digital surveillance is higher than ever, there is a hollowing out of learning, a shallowness that comes with abuses of privacy and surveillance and from a loss of cherished human contact.
A picture of marital bliss? Survey finds many married couples are happy
The headlines around high divorce rates and celeb couples breaking up may be more familiar, but a Sunday Times survey has found that many married couples are happy in their unions.
Why are school lunches still so unhealthy?
Teenagers in the UK consume poor quality diets, low in nutrients and high in processed foods.
Faith, food and fasting
Of course God has given us food to enjoy and we should enjoy it. This is not about putting a guilt trip on anyone or being legalistic but we should make sure we have the balance right.
Turning suffering into joy
Most people, regardless of their culture or background, agree that human beings ought not to suffer, be excluded, die of injustice. So how do we make sense of these realities?
Are we just physical beings or is there more to us than that?
Scientist and apologist Dr Sharon Dirckx talks to Christian Today about the limits of the popular idea that we are little more than a series of chemical reactions and why the evidence stacks up for a more meaningful explanation.
Evangelicals are knowledgeable about their own religion, less so about other faiths - poll
When trying to answer questions about other world religions (Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and global religious demography), Christian respondents did not fare as well as Jews, atheists, and agnostics.
A Christian response to compassion fatigue
It's as if a need that demands our response can jump out from behind a corner at any second, asking us to show compassion.
Same ****, different day?
Holidays are great but if day to day life is rubbish, they won't help much, they're just a temporary respite.
The man you're made to be
Say what you like about that old vision of masculinity though, at least it was clear, writes Martin Saunders
Mothers are the drivers of their kids' faith more than fathers - study
Christians in America are more likely to say it was their mother's faith that influenced them rather than their father's, although research has found that grandparents are significant too.