This Life: When the innocent pay the price
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects on recent events in Sydney…
John Adams’ Nativity oratorio ‘El Nino’ gets colourful staging at the NYC Met
New York AP The children crumple and fall to the stage, victims of King Herod’s assassins. Then the Virgin Mary, in a voice brimming with anguish and outrage, memorialises the student protesters who were massacred by Mexican armed forces in 1968. This is El Nino, a retelling of the birth and early life of Jesus through a […]
Sight-Seeing: When working for justice can lead us away from Jesus
NILS VON KALM sounds a warning about doing works of justice while remaining “comfortably distant” from love…
The Explainer: For some Christians, a solar eclipse signals the second coming of Christ
In an article first published on The Conversation, sholar of early Christian literature ERIC VANDEN EYKEL looks at how some Christians view next week’s solar eclipse…
Essay: What that Bible Trump is selling says about truth
JIM WALLIS says that take a look inside that ‘God Bless the USA’ Bible and you’ll find that in the truth lies real freedom…
This Life: Are you hungry for more of God?
US columnist CAROL ROUND writes about the importance of partaking of “spiritual food”…
Trump is selling ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles for $59.99 as he faces mounting legal bills
New York, US AP Former President Donald Trump is now selling Bibles as he runs to return to the White House. Trump, who became the presumptive Republican nominee earlier this month, released a video on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday urging his supporters to buy the “God Bless the USA Bible,” which is inspired by country singer Lee […]
The Explainer: What is Palm Sunday? Why is the donkey important to the story? And how is it celebrated worldwide?
As the world marked Palm Sunday on the weekend, LUIS ANDRES HENAO, of Associated Press, explains what the day is all about…
‘God’s Ghostwriters’: New Testament scholar Candida Moss looks at the hidden hands behind the Bible
In her new book, Moss argues that slaves and other lower-status workers played a key role in producing and preserving the Christian Scriptures. BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports…
This Life: Renewing our faith through a child’s eyes
US-based columnist CAROL ROUND writes about how her grandson’s faith impacted her…