US hostage’s wife asks his African captors to contact her
World Watch Monitor The wife of a pioneering American missionary abducted nine months ago in Africa’s Sahel region has put out a video pleading for his safe return. In the 2 minute 26 second video released on Tuesday, Els Woodke expresses her despair and desire to be in touch with her husband’s kidnappers. Jeff Woodke, […]
BOOKS: AN INDEPTH EXAMINATION OF HOW THE BIBLE CAN INFORM OUR ETHICS IN A POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
DARREN CRONSHAW reads Mark Brett’s look at Biblical ethics in a postcolonial world…
In the US, Republicans, Democrats divided on impact of religion
RNS Do churches and other religious organisations have a positive impact on the way things are going in the United States? Americans are divided on that point, according to a Pew Research Center survey released on Monday that shows they align along predictable party lines. “Wide partisan differences over the impact of major […]
JOAN OF ART: MEDIEVAL MYSTIC MAINTAINS HOLD ON THE ARTISTIC IMAGINATION
KIMBERLY WINSTON, of Religion News Service, reports from the US on our ongoing fascination with Joan of Arc as a new photography show opens which attempts to capture “something of the real Joan”…
SIGHT-SEEING: A TALE OF TWO SOUNDTRACKS
Writing from the US, TRIPP HUDGINS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reflects on the nexus between Christianity, music and politics…