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…
Emotions and grief
I’ve previously said we are emotional beings much more than we want to admit. Emotions control us. PICTURE: K Mitch Hodge/Unsplash The greatest proof that we are feeling beings is grief, because grief overwhelms us. So many books on grief are written for our minds – “How can a good God allow suffering?”. But when grief […]
Celebrating Tolkien: You’ve seen ‘The Rings of Power,’ but have you heard of this tiny museum housing JRR Tolkien’s treasures?
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports from the Marion E Wade Center at Wheaton College in the US, one of the foremost research centres not only on Lewis, but also Tolkien and five other British Christian authors who influenced Lewis’ work…
Immediate or eternal?
During World War II, BBC radio wanted to give the British public, who were going through the Blitz, something to think about that transcended the war. A statue of CS Lewis in Belfast, Northern Ireland. PICTURE: K Mitch Hodge/Unsplash They asked a little-known academic to give some talks on Christianity, a foundation of English life. […]
Tolkien fans hope to turn his house into a ‘Rivendell’ for writers and filmmakers
RNS Fantasy novel enthusiasts wish to turn the house of famed Catholic author JRR Tolkien in Oxford, where he wrote The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, into a meeting place for writers, screenwriters and filmmakers from all cultures and faith backgrounds. In 1930, Tolkien moved into the house at 20 Northmoor Road where […]
Sight-Seeing: Revisiting ‘The Last Battle’- CS Lewis’ Narnia tale for our times
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, looks at the lessons from the last book in CS Lewis’ Narnia series, ‘The Last Battle’…
Sight-Seeing: Mining the friendship field of Christian women and men
JO KADLECEK looks at how two new books explore an age-old question…
SIGHT-SEEING: THE FOUR LOVES (OF NEW YORK LIFE)
In an article first published on Religion News Service, Rev TIM SCHENCK – an Episocopal rector and author of ‘Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection Between Coffee and Faith’, reflects on the meaning of agape love in light of a Super Bowl commercial this week…
THE BIG PICTURE: ‘…AND HEAVEN’S EVEN BETTER’
See OUTREACH MEDIA’s October poster…
THIS LIFE: WANTING SOMETHING THE WORLD CAN’T OFFER
ELISABETH CARTER reflects on how the search for perfection ultimately leads us to God…