Faithfulness is never abstract, it starts with a heart commitment and evolves into a life-changing force.

There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with money, authority, reputation or experience. But none of them should be the foundation on which we build our life, our identity or our significance.

An essay questioning the fruits of optimisation. Part 2: Optimisation and Fragility. What is the “cult of efficiency” doing to our humanity?

An essay questioning the fruits of optimisation. Part 1: What are we aiming for when we optimise? Do we even count the costs? What does it mean to live a good life?

Why is the Bible’s most famous character (apart from Jesus) forgotten about within the Bible’s own narrative?

Deborah’s story as a female judge, a prophetess, a general and a poet stands out as one of success and victory.

Obeying God is not always cut and dry. It often requires courage and shrewdness. Esther is a great example of both, and through her, God saved her own people from impending genocide.

Chesterton's ‘Orthodoxy’ is a treatise on the origins of pleasure. Where does joy stem from? What is the heartbeat of pleasure? What are its origins in our world?

At the intersection of professional excellence, cultural relevance, and their Christian faith, Cross-Current participants inhabit a liminal space of risk and opportunity.

Many young adults face two major transitions between the ages of 18-26 – first the move from home to university and second the move from university to work.

Daniel, an exile from Judah, rises to political prominence in the land of Babylon. From youth to old age, his extraordinary life story is one of faithfulness amid very complicated circumstances.

“We have a double responsibility: maturity in Christ is the goal both for ourselves and our ministry to others.” John Stott

If we want to see what the Bible thinks success is, let’s begin here.

The only person in human history whose life was absolutely integrated was Jesus Christ.

We may still believe honesty to be ‘the best policy’, but who’s honesty is it? Is it honesty expedient to our own desired outcomes? This article is part 1 of a mini-series on integrity.

Second plenary session from the November 2020 Cross-Current conference. Looking at Living with fragility from 2 Corinthians chapters 4 & 5. Contributions from Pablo Martinez, David Wu and Tim Vickers

First plenary session from the November 2020 Cross-Current conference. Looking at the theme Living with hope from 2 Corinthians chapters 4 & 5. Contributions from Os Guiness, Lea Koves and Tim Vickers

The coronavirus pandemic has led to an exponential rise in mental health conditions triggered by all-pervading death anxiety. Prof John Wyatt says Christians must daily rekindle biblical hope as an an

Unemployment is one of the hardest seasons in anyone’s life. Nowadays, with unemployment rates peaking all over the world, what difference can we bring as Christians?

You cannot go to college just to get a better job. Christ's call on you as a student is a calling to meet the needs of the Church, both for its own life and the life of the world.

Useful questions and advice helping students overcome the sacred-secular divide and see their studies as an opportunity to honour God, whatever their field of study.

The final part of our short overview of the theology of work. After Eden, where does our work fit into God's plans?

Jeremy Cooke on Cross-Current Law & Justice. Interviewed during the annual Cross-Current Professional Groups Conference in Berlin, November 2019.

Julia Doxat-Purser on Cross-Current Politics. Interviewed during the annual Cross-Current Professional Groups Conference in Berlin, Nov 2019. Julia is a Socio-political Representative for the EEA.

Work is God's gift of creativity.

Introduction to a 4-part video series on the theology of work - designed to be used with groups.

Trustlessness singularly marks the beginnings of the great biblical story, and there are lessons to be learned from it in relation to humankind.

You belong to God: He made you and he bought you through the cross. That means your life is not your own. It is God’s, and this should form the basis for finding the meaning and purpose for your life.

Bayer suggests that discipleship is fundamentally a matter of Christ’s exposure - and transformation - of our self-perception and God- perception.

How do we learn to weather the storms of life that threaten the soul? How can we build beneath the waterline, to strengthen and shore up?

Ambition is part of what makes us human. The Creator of all is glorious and interested in glory. How do we rightly rescue ambition, and rightly direct it?

Ecclesiastes–often dry and acerbic in wit-introduces us to the heart of faith. As Gibson writes, 'We need someone to tell us to listen because we want to look and speak more than we want to listen'.

Every once in a while, we are confronted with challenging times, personal or social crises which remind us just how dependent we truly are. Remembering God is long overdue. Now the time has come.

“On the first mountain you tend to be ambitious, strategic, and independent. On the second mountain you tend to be relational, intimate, and relentless.” David Brooks

Generous living is living a sacrificial life. A life of joy and ultimate freedom: not merely giving enough so we have a clear conscience, but willing to let go of anything that God might ask us to.

Three "tells” of a potentially bad church.

It is not what a person does that determines if their work is sacred or secular, it is their attitude.

When our world lives for the weekend, how can we rethink work as something we do for our God - whatever we do?

Even when our work feels like the most boring and unrewarding thing, we can recognise it is still a gift from the Lord.

Human capacity for responsibility (and destruction) sets us apart from all other earthly life forms.

Made in the image of the Creator - it has to mean something, doesn't it?

As Warren Buffett the American investor once said: “Trust is like the air we breathe - when it’s present nobody really notices; when it’s absent everybody notices.”

Trust is like a muscle - the more we exercise it the stronger it gets!

At a time when there are more Christians alive in the world than ever before, why is there also more corruption?