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Disclosure Day: not alone – but where do we belong?
Holly Price reviews Spielberg’s new blockbuster about feeling lost at home and searching for wonder – one you might want to pass on to a sci‑fi‑loving friend.
Church in a coffee shop
A story of finding faith again through friendship and simple conversation.
Everyday lives, eternal impact
Gary and Jo have seen the fruit of coming alongside people in the messiness of real life.
The Mandalorian’s messy disciple-making
Holly Price reviews the new Star Wars adventure, comparing Grogu’s apprenticeship to Timothy’s.
Disciples made among friends
Emmanuel was discipled within his friendship group and he sees this as crucial to the fruitfulness of generations to come.
God even uses curtains, a beer and me
I have been living alongside Focus* people for over 6 years, and yet I still find myself learning new things about the Focus religion and worldview every week! One such ‘classroom moment’ came when I went to help Abu*, a refugee from the Middle East, hang curtains in his new flat.
No little people
Phil Boydell invites you to preview a brand new resource, The Alongsider Course.
Walking with, not fixing: the quiet work of being there
Susan Watson, a member of the Navigators safeguarding team, gets practical about what is (and really isn’t) helpful when getting alongside someone who is hurting.
What if?
Ros Boydell ponders the question: ‘What if it wasn’t independence we were aiming for, but interdependencea?’
But I’m not finished
Holly Price recalls a childhood memory, as she wonders how Jesus and the first alongsiders experienced Easter Saturday.
Facing fatigue with faith
Ali Forbes has been wrestling with this question for over a decade: What happens when you can’t get alongside someone else, due to illness or some other obstacle?
The Oscar contender that turns us inside out
Three character‑driven films are leading this year’s Oscar race. Each centres on a family haunted by its past, and each features powerful performances that reveal the cost of healing generational shame and trauma. The drama of each is found in ‘the turn’: will they turn their back on one way of life in order to turn towards someone?
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