Post-university, the Bible was really helpful. I had no idea what I was going to do. I felt like I was being called into youth work. I did a New Wine discipleship year and then a year with a church, and I still found I wanted to go into youth work, b...

A few weeks ago, I was travelling in the Milan area when the coronavirus struck. The Italian response was dramatic. We went from hearing rumours to the closure of all public buildings, schools and universities within 48 hours. I was actually in the P...

I’m an occupational therapist. I work in the community with children who have conditions like cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy. Everything has changed, and is changing all the time. I’m now seeing adults in their homes. It could be anyone fr...

‘I had a car accident in 2015 when I was 25. In 2014, my twin girls were born. In 2015, I had twin boys. They were ten weeks old and in special care when the accident happened. The children’s father was threatening me and stuff. This girlfriend o...

My husband is a clever man. He worked for an oil company. We lived in Saudi Arabia, then the Bahamas. It was just great. There were parties all the time. When we were living in the Bahamas, I was 27 and had three children. I got pregnant again within...

‘During the lockdown, I felt quite alone as I had been used to being at work in a secondary school with people around me to talk to. I'd also been used to having my mum to stay for two or three days each week to help me to look after my two ad...

‘I've always liked Ecclesiastes 1.2: “‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher” – even though it's melancholy and depressing, which I am not. The book talks about how ordinary things are “smoke in the wind”. At the end t...

In 2022, my dad was diagnosed with cancer. He was only 64. We thought he had a year or two if he had the treatment. It was devastating, but we thought that he could take the treatment. But two days after the first radiotherapy, I went home. He wasn�...

These resources have been designed for Key Stage 2 and 3 RE. Some of the resources are available using two different Bible translations, the CEV and the NRSV, so that you can choose the version which is more suitable for your students.

Our latest trek takes us to the sunny coastal region of Caesarea. This was a place known for architecture and innovation as Herod created a ‘mini-Rome’, complete with amphitheatre, hippodrome and harbour. In this location, with Andrew Ollerton as...

Our latest Bible Trek series introduces the historically important city of Ephesus near the western shores of modern-day Turkey. The well-preserved ruins remind us that Ephesus was a site of influence and importance to the ancient world as a centre o...

The story of Ruth focuses on the story of three people: Naomi, a widow from Bethlehem in Judah; Ruth, the daughter-in-law who comes from Moab; and Boaz, a land-owning farmer from Bethlehem. This well-known and well-loved story tells of Ruth’s dedic...

The odd feature about 2 Kings is that unlike the other historical books, it begins right in the middle of a story. With all the others, the previous book has a definite ending (like the death of Saul or the glory of David’s kingship) but between 1 ...

2 Chronicles picks up the story from the end of 1 Chronicles. Chapters 1–9 complete the stories of David and Solomon and, in particular, the story of the building of the temple. The next chapters (10–28) describe what happened when the north and ...

A book of poetry on the theme of human love, featuring the developing feelings of two young people. The lovers talk to each other but the woman also addresses her friends, the ‘daughters of Jerusalem’. You can take this simply as an erotic love p...

Our Christmas resources for 2023 – including two brilliant children’s booklets for both primary and toddler ages, as well as accompanying videos and activities.

In 1991, I was pregnant with twins. At 24 weeks, I lost them. It was a desperate time. My husband and I went through a process of mourning and pain. People came to talk to us about where God was in the situation. I realised that something was missin...

I worked in the City for many years. Life was brilliant on the trading floor. If you couldn’t stand pressure and didn’t have a sense of humour, it wasn’t the place to be! One lunchtime, two of my colleagues asked me to go to St Helen’s Bisho...

I used to be a television presenter and I’m currently in the news room at BBC Radio Solent. I have four children now. They range in age from 8 to 16 years old. Being a woman and a Mum you are able to reinvent yourself. As a woman, you are used to c...

Prior to becoming a Christian, I had a lot of superstitious feelings. I used to count to three before I did things. I never walked under a ladder. I would throw salt over my shoulder. I thought bad luck would befall me if I didn’t walk into the pat...