Volunteering Isn’t Just About Helping, it’s Community Building

By: Laura Bennett

At face value, volunteering is simply a generous offer of your time and skills to an organisation or cause you care about. In reality though, it goes far beyond that, having a profound affect on our cultural identity. Read more

Solitude for Beginners

By: Susan Browning

I was always reaching out, always finding something new to take on, always engaged with ministry, always in peoples lives, always over-booking my schedule, then feeling like my brain would burst and my heart felt heavy. 
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“What’s for Dinner Tonight?” Overload – With a Side of Decision Fatigue!

By: City Bible Forum

3pm on a Thursday afternoon. I needed to write an article but I just couldn’t decide on what to write. The low blood sugar didn’t help. But the indecision was due to more than that. Read more

Confidence in Cooking Could Improve Your Mental Health

By: Amy Cheng

Healthy eating is often linked to better mental health but a new study has revealed that the act of cooking healthy meals can also benefit our mental health.
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3 Key Powers of 3D Printing

By: Michael McQueen

With abilities that seem to have come straight from the future, 3D printing is gaining traction across all industries. While 3D printing has been a fringe technology for decades, the numbers give some indication of how quickly it is moving towards the mainstream. Read more

New Academy Aiming to Change Our Bitter-Sweet Relationship With Ageing

By: Laura Bennett

It’s bizarre that while most of us would say we want to live a long, fruitful life, society also has these deeply engrained attitudes about “getting older” that label middle-age and beyond as this kind of mediocre wasteland of discontentedness. Read more

You Ought To Be Congratulated!

By: Helen Carr

In 2019/2020 I wrote a novel. Yes, I finally finished writing the 90000-word manuscript I had sitting in my head for years. Thank you, you’re too kind. No, seriously, hold your applause; because the truth is, it’s not very good…but it could be…maybe? Read more

Mustard Vinaigrette

By: Susan Joy

This tangy mustard dressing is an easy and versatile dressing for almost any salad. It also goes well over steamed vegetables, giving them a boost of extra flavour. Read more

‘Self-Care is Vital in the Unrelenting News Cycle’

By: Laura Bennett

Whatever your diet of news consumption was before the pandemic, it’s likely in the last three years you’ve watched more updates, press conferences, and alerts about natural disasters and world events than in previous ones. Read more

The Metaverse Will Mean More to Gen Alpha Than Any Other Generation

By: McCrindle

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the arrival of ‘Meta’ – a parent company that will house the stable of products and companies owned by the tech giant to allow autonomy between each product under a larger, purposeful banner. Read more