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How fixing up forgotten churches can make a divine intervention in the housing crisis
An empty church
Housing crisis

How fixing up forgotten churches can make a divine intervention in the housing crisis

As many as 7,000 extra homes in Wales could be created by turning faith-owned spaces into housing, new research from Welsh think tank Bevan Foundation and Housing Justice Cymru found. Churches could yet offer a hope and a prayer in delivering social housing
Buffer zones outside abortion clinics are step in right direction – but other problems persist
Abortion

Buffer zones outside abortion clinics are step in right direction – but other problems persist

Rowan Williams: 'The challenge is whether religion is part of the solution or part of the problem'
Letter To My Younger Self

Rowan Williams: 'The challenge is whether religion is part of the solution or part of the problem'

Joshua Luke Smith: Meet the rapper helping prisoners process their past through poetry
Music

Joshua Luke Smith: Meet the rapper helping prisoners process their past through poetry

How Sinéad O’Connor risked it all to speak truth to power – and inspired a new generation
Film

How Sinéad O’Connor risked it all to speak truth to power – and inspired a new generation

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Faith healing: How churches offer reassurance in tough times
Churches

Faith healing: How churches offer reassurance in tough times

As Eurovision takes over Liverpool, 'Izyum to Liverpool' reminds us why it can't be in Ukraine
Izyum to Liverpool: Ukraine's Katya Buchatska in her installation - part of the build up to Eurovision
Interview

As Eurovision takes over Liverpool, 'Izyum to Liverpool' reminds us why it can't be in Ukraine

British Muslims are 'disenfranchised at every level’
British Muslims
Cost of living crisis

British Muslims are 'disenfranchised at every level’

Ramadan: How to support employees, friends and colleagues in the Muslim holy month
A group of diners breaks the Ramadan fast with iftar at Habib's Cuisine in Dearborn, Michigan. Photo credit: State Dept./Brian Widdis
Ramadan

Ramadan: How to support employees, friends and colleagues in the Muslim holy month

Top 5 books about mystics and mysticism, chosen by Victoria MacKenzie
Buddhist incense (Mysticism)
into the mystic

Top 5 books about mystics and mysticism, chosen by Victoria MacKenzie

Our Daily Bread: Father Alex Frost says it's not just prayer we need to tackle poverty
Our Daily Bread: From Argos to the Altar – A Priest’s Story by Father Alex Frost
poverty

Our Daily Bread: Father Alex Frost says it's not just prayer we need to tackle poverty

Social media may be the new religion, but it hasn't made us better people
Social media logos
Paul McNamee

Social media may be the new religion, but it hasn't made us better people

Author Jan Carson: Britpop, bible camp, Ian Paisley and me
Books

Author Jan Carson: Britpop, bible camp, Ian Paisley and me

What it's like to grow up gay, Muslim and afraid
LGBTQ+

What it's like to grow up gay, Muslim and afraid

How church, state and monarchy are inextricably bound
Books

How church, state and monarchy are inextricably bound

Why are millennial Catholics flocking to the church their parents deserted?
Father John Bollan

Why are millennial Catholics flocking to the church their parents deserted?

Judaism has got a lot more complex in the age of the millennials
Rabbi Jonathan Romain

Judaism has got a lot more complex in the age of the millennials

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