Just over nine per cent of adults in England and Wales have been divorced; that’s according to the 2021 Census. So what does the Bible have to say about divorce, and how should we understand it? The words of Jesus in Matthew 5.31–32 seem quite cl...

The Super Cool Story of Jesus, our children's Easter resources from 2017.

Dutch art, TED talks and the Gospels – they all feature in theologian Marijke Hoek's exploration of Jesus' acts of mercy and how we can respond. 

Children growing up in poverty, surrounded by illiteracy and violence, are embracing Jesus.

Mentioned in Galatians 1.18-19 as the brother of Jesus (a term which some traditions understand to mean relative or cousin), James is thought to have been the leader of the Christian community in Jerusalem and the author of the epistle of James. Not...

We hear daily stories about the plight of refugees, often fleeing war and persecution. Jesus too was a refugee. What do we know about the Flight into Egypt? 

Ever scratched your head over Jesus' call to 'Be perfect' in Matthew 5.48? You're not alone. Paula Gooder considers how we can understand this verse – with the help of some Japanese pottery.

When Jesus gave the great commission he said to make disciples from all nations. What does the original word for 'all nations' mean and suggest? If Jesus were giving his parting words here and today, what might be his instructions?

Why are some verses in the book of Ecclesiastes so pessimistic, with advice such as ‘Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die’ included in the Bible? They seem completely contrary to the teaching of Jesus.

It’s a very significant title. As far as we know, Jesus had only the sort of formal education anyone else from his background did; he was a carpenter, rather than someone who’d sat at the feet of a renowned teacher and devoted himself to a lifeti...

I was made redundant from a job presenting and reporting at ITV West in 2009. We knew it was coming. But when you actually stop and drive away from a newsroom having presented your last bulletin, that’s a bit of a wrench. It was a very difficult ti...

What was Jesus was writing in the sand when the woman was caught in adultery? Was it the 10 commandments, or was he writing down all the sins of the Pharisees? Maybe by writing in the sand and not in stone, he was indicating that the laws of the reli...

‘My Bible is open at Luke 9 which is about how Jesus feeds 5,000 people. This is interesting because he found a child with five loaves and two fish. This shows me that I can do something for God. That child could have eaten that food himself, but h...

In Britain, Mother's Day falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent and started as a church tradition. While you won’t find many verses in the Bible directly hailing motherhood, it’s easy to see through the stories of Bible moms the love that God ha...

What have we learned from the disruption of the last few years about faithfully following Jesus?

In John 10.10, Jesus talks about why he came. He says that he came to give us "life, life in all its fullness". That’s very, very important to me. I was not brought up as a Christian. My parents were anti, if anything. It wasn’t until I...

Interested in ‘Rediscovering the way of Jesus in a new landscape’? Prof David Ford brings insights from John's Gospel and Jess Dubock brings insights from Generation Z.

The leaders of the Holy Land’s three Bible Society teams are asking for your prayers. Will you pray that they’re able to maintain their amazing Christian witness in a time of war, keeping their eyes fixed on Jesus?

I come from a Jewish background. I was a liberal Jew so we only went to synagogue for big events. They read from the five scrolls of the Torah, but there was no translation, so you had no idea what was being read. I had no knowledge of the Bible, but...

I grew up in Accra in Ghana: we studied the Bible at secondary school, we went to church, people preached on the bus. It was normal to me. People felt that you needed to hear the word of God. It was preached at the market, where everybody comes. Nobo...