As our married friend gazes earnestly at us and ponders aloud how it can possibly be that we haven’t been snatched up yet, we know their intentions are good. We know they think they are complimenting us. We know they are trying to say they think we’re great, and that they just can’t understand why Mr or Mrs Right hasn’t recognized what they see so clearly

Recently, my 2-year-old nephew met his 6-week-old cousin for the first time. He spent the entire afternoon trying to ‘share’ all his toys with the baby, which entailed delightedly shoving each toy in his cousin’s little face so he might best appreciate each and every one. I, on the other hand, spent the entire afternoon repeatedly calling out, ‘Matthew, you need to be gentle with the baby. Be gentle!’

This Episode we tackle bible reading, the struggles, the joys as well as an interview with Dani Treweek about a little project to help keep one-another accountable in this season.

Let’s face it: Christianity is weird. We believe a dead man rose to life again (after being crucified as a common criminal). We believe that marriage is the union of one man, and one woman.

But where Christianity so often appears to get really weird – even amongst Christians – is on the different roles of men and women within the Church.

Picture this. After months and months of not being able to meet together with your church family, it’s the first Sunday that church is finally back on! You pull into the car park. The kids bound out and you catch up with them at the church doors. At first you’re a little surprised. The chairs have been laid out differently, with lots of small clusters throughout the room, each separated by a couple of metres

How can your church love singles during this season? Particularly, what does it mean for church to be a family right now? Dani Treweek from Single Minded Conference joins Scott Sanders and Derek Hanna.

This year I watched my 18 month old nephew open his Christmas presents via FaceTime. It was 9.30pm on Christmas Eve and I was sitting in a friend’s guest bedroom in London. My nephew and the rest of my family were back home in Sydney having recently woken up to an already sweltering Christmas morning. I watched him rip off the wrapping paper with ever more vigour.

“Can we live without sex?” In and of itself, that question seems pretty simple. But when we start breaking it down, things become a little more complicated. What are we talking about here when we say “sex”? What is sex? What counts as sex? What doesn’t count as sex?

For argument's sake: where we take a debate, cut out the party politics and try to talk it out Are family values biblical? What's more important, our nuclear family or our church family? Do we idolise marriage in the church and in society at the expense of other relationships?