China crackdown on Apple store hits holy book apps, Audible
AP Amazon’s audiobook service Audible and phone apps for reading the holy books of Islam and Christianity have disappeared from the Apple store in mainland China, the latest examples of the impact of the country’s tightened rules for internet firms. Audible said Friday that it removed its app from the Apple store in mainland China […]
Podcasts: “Intelligent and relevant” – Nomad tackles issues across the spectrum
NILS VON KALM listens to Nomad, what he describes as an “intelligent and relevant” look at “issues, dilemmas and areas of concern for Christians of a more progressive persuasion”…
This Life: What does it look like to ‘walk the talk’?
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article published on ASSIST News Service, on living out our faith…
Books: ‘Christians’, past and present
DAVID ADAMS reads Greg Sheridan’s latest book, ‘Christians’…
Books: How to be a good sport
DAVID ADAMS reads Stephen Liggins’ book on the intersection of Christianity and sport…
What is Christianity about?
Sometimes Christianity is sold as a ‘blessing train’ – “get on board and everything will be grand”. PICTURE: James/Unsplash That’s not the Christianity I know. Christianity for me makes sense of the pain, suffering – yet joy and love – in the world. I’ve come to understand that Christianity is the permission and ability to […]
Sight-Seeing: The social-media-examined life is not the one that sustains us
US Christian author KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article first published on Religion News Service, argues that the public life is not what feeds the desires of the heart…
Sight-Seeing: American Christians must humbly look to global church for solutions to decline
TOM LIN, president and CEO of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, on what the ‘majority world’ church has to teach Christians in the US (and the Western world in general)…
Books: The good, the bad and the ugly in the history of the church
DAVID ADAMS reads Australian historian John Dickson’s latest book on Christian history…
The Interview: Theology professor Michael Battle’s new book exploring how Desmond Tutu’s Christian mysticism helped unite a nation
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, speaks with Michael Battle, author of a new “spiritual biography” of Nobel Peace Prize-winning South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu…