A Wider Faith
A Wider Faith is a personal Christian reflection site exploring what it means to follow Jesus in a changing world.
Exploring a faith that is spacious enough for questions, rooted enough to give us direction, and alive enough to shape the way we live.
Explore the reflections through four themes — LIVE, CARE, STEWARD and THINK — each offering a different way of considering how faith shapes our lives.
A place to explore
Christian faith has always involved questions — questions about God, ourselves, the world around us, and how we are called to live. A Wider Faith is a place to explore those questions with openness and curiosity, while remaining rooted in the life and teaching of Jesus.
Four ways of exploring a wider faith
The reflections on this site grow around four connected themes — ways of exploring what Christian faith might mean for the whole of life.
Faith that makes room for questions
Exploring Christian faith with openness and curiosity, recognising that questions and uncertainty can be part of a living and growing faith.
Faith rooted in Jesus
Returning to the life and teaching of Jesus as the centre from which we explore what it means to follow him in our own time.
Faith lived in everyday life
Asking how faith shapes the way we live — our relationships, choices, communities, care for creation, and engagement with the world around us.
Faith that brings healing and wholeness
Exploring healing in its widest sense — not simply as physical cure, but as the movement towards wholeness in ourselves, our relationships, our communities and creation.
Recent reflections
New reflections exploring faith, life and the questions that arise where the two meet. A new reflection is published each week.
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What Does It Mean to Love Your Neighbour?
Loving our neighbour sounds simple, but Jesus turns the question around. Rather than asking who qualifies for our concern, what might it mean to become a neighbour in the ordinary encounters of daily life?
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What Do We Do When Christians Disagree?
Christians have always disagreed. The challenge is not simply deciding who is right, but learning how to seek truth together without losing sight of one another.
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When Healing Does Not Mean Cure
Christian healing is not always the same as physical cure. What might healing look like when illness remains, treatment reaches its limits, or there is no easy answer?