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Each week we post an article that is designed as a ‘thought for the week.’ It is often related to something current, topical or seasonal. Written by our authors and staff, these five-minute reads encourage Biblical reflection and Christian action.

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Growing in prayer – part 1

Articles | 11.01.2026

We begin the new year with a focus on deepening our prayer life.

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Looking back, looking forward

Articles | 28.12.2025

Our chief executive Richard Fisher looks back on 2025 in thankfulness and forward to 2026 in hope and anticipation.

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Christmas greetings

Articles | 21.12.2025

Maggi Dawn invites us to rethink those Christmas card images and look afresh at that snowy stable scene.

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The hope of glory

Articles | 14.12.2025

Angela Tilby offers Advent reflections on ‘The hope of glory’.

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Dreaming of a Green Christmas

Articles | 07.12.2025

Olivia Warburton offers tips and tricks for busy families yearning for a greener, more sustainable Christmas.

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Joy in the expectation

Articles | 13.12.2020

Martyn Payne introduces ten specially composed prayers (or antiphons) to help us prepare to meet Christ in all the different manifestations in which he comes to us…

Advent

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Drawn to the light

Articles | 06.12.2020

In the fourth of our Advent 2020 reflections, Olivia, Warburton, head of content creation at BRF, shares practical guidance from Saint Paul on how to welcome the light of Christ into our daily lives…

Advent

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Embracing the darkness

Articles | 29.11.2020

In the third of our Advent series, 'Light in the darkness', Eley McAinsh suggests that we should embrace the darkness, not shun it…

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Preparing to prepare

Articles | 22.11.2020

In the second of our specially commissioned ‘Light in the darkness’ reflections for Advent, Gordon Giles suggests that in a topsy-turvy year such as this, it’s more important than ever to embrace this season of preparation and hope…

Advent

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Celtic Advent

Articles | 15.11.2020

In the first of our new series of articles for Advent, David Cole explores the distinctive aspects of a Celtic Advent, beginning with the fact that the Celtic season of waiting began halfway through November, rather than at the end…

Advent

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The Spirit of prayer

Articles | 08.11.2020

Closing our series on prayer, Martyn Payne, BRF’s prayer advocate, reflects that however inadequate our prayers, they are important, inspired by the Holy Spirit and used to grow God’s kingdom...

Prayer

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Pray without ceasing

Articles | 01.11.2020

In the latest of our series of articles on prayer, Helen Julian CSF, author of Franciscan Footprints: Following Christ in the ways of Francis and Clare, reflects on Paul’s plea to the Christians of Thessalonica to ‘pray without ceasing’.

Prayer

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Praying for others

Articles | 25.10.2020

From the perspective of ministry to older people, Debbie Thrower, BRF’s Anna Chaplaincy pioneer, writes on praying for and with others...

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Helps to prayer

Articles | 18.10.2020

In the latest of our series of articles on prayer, Holy Habits pioneer Andrew Roberts shares some of the aids to prayer which he finds most helpful...

Prayer

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Families at prayer

Articles | 11.10.2020

Becky Sedgwick, from our Parenting for Faith team, explains how to encourage children to make prayer an ongoing, daily two-way conversation with God...

Prayer

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