The Explainer: The ‘Curse of Ham’ – how people of faith used a story in Genesis to justify slavery
PAUL HAM, a lecturer in narrative history, looks at how “a grotesque misuse of the very words of the Bible” has been used to support the idea of slavery…
Sight-Seeing: Salvation for the whole of creation
NILS VON KALM says we have short-changed the Gospel…
Essay: Debates about migration have never been simple – just look at the Hebrew Bible
KI-EUN JANG, assistant professor of theology at Fordham University, looks at what the Old Testament says about migrants…
Sight-Seeing: And God saw that it was good – creation care and why our silence is deafening
MATTHEW SMEAL explores why so many Christians are quiet on the issue of climate change…
Sight-Seeing: The difference is hope
MATTHEW SMEAL reflects on the importance of hope…
This Life: Connecting with God in creation
MATTHEW SMEAL, of Baptist World Aid Australia, writes that one of the best places to connect with God is in nature in this excerpt from Baptist World Aid Australia’s new devotional, ‘The Earth is the Lord’s!’…
StrangeSights: Film in space; Guernica commemorated (in chocolate); and, a world record light show
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
GreenSight: The ‘dudai’ or mandrake
ALVIN JOHNSON looks at the Biblical mentions of the mandrake, known in Hebrew as the ‘dudai’…
Essay: How did voter access become a faith issue? The Bible told us so.
JIM WALLIS, founder of Sojourners and a co-convenor of Lawyers & Collars, writes about why protecting the image of God in the upcoming US election means “protecting the voting rights of Americans of colour, whose votes some are trying to suppress and even intimidate – deliberately and strategically”…
Sight-Seeing: Joseph and the art of pivoting (in a time of pandemic)
Dr JEANNIE TRUDEL, president of Australian-based Christian Heritage College, looks at what the Biblical story of Joseph tells us about how God uses difficult times to shape us…