This Life: What are we working towards in this life?
CHARISSA CHEONG, a year into her post-university life, writes that amid uncertainty we should never lose sight of our ultimate goal – an eternity with Christ…
This Life: Shining a light in a broken world
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at what it means, as followers of Christ, to bring light into the darkness…
Wow!: ‘The Giving Manger’ launches new Christmas tradition – and five million acts of kindness
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports…
Sight-Seeing: Stop waiting until you’re ready
NILS VON KALM writes about answering Jesus’ call to follow Him, regardless of how well equipped we feel…
Sight-Seeing: Acknowledging our vulnerability
NILS VON KALM on the importance of honesty in following ‘the way of hope’ that Christ offers us…
Essay: The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
Art historian ANNA SWARTWOOD HOUSE, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the history of portrayal of Christ as a white European…
Essay: We can’t cancel ‘white Jesus’, but we can keep telling our church’s story
PAUL ROBINSON, executive minister of Love Mercy Do Justice of the Evangelical Covenant Church – the church that originally commissioned Warner Sallman’s famous blonde, blue-eyed image of Christ, responds to calls to cancel ‘white Jesus’…
Depicting Christ: How Jesus became white – and why there are calls to ‘cancel’ that
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, looks at the history of depicting Jesus as a white man – including Warner E Sallman’s famous image ‘Head of Christ’ – and reports on calls to move away from such images…
Sight-Seeing: There are no ‘issues’, only people
NILS VON KALM says following the way of Christ means looking beyond the ‘issues’ to find the person…
Sight-Seeing: Thomas’ wounded Christ is a saviour for the COVID-19 crisis
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOHN J THATAMANIL, associate professor of theology and world religions at Union Theological Seminary in the US, argues that in the aftermath of the resurrection, Christ’s wounded body calls us to “prophetic attention”…