This Life: Renewing our faith through a child’s eyes
US-based columnist CAROL ROUND writes about how her grandson’s faith impacted her…
Don’t tell me what to do
Have you been in a work situation where the young whipper-snapper comes in, and they just can’t be told? Image posed by model. PICTURE: artursfoto/iStockphoto They have their ideas, and your years of experience basically means nothing? You can sum up their attitude with one phrase – “You can’t tell me what to do!” Doesn’t […]
Sight-Seeing: Poverty, potatoes and peace – timely lessons from Ireland’s turbulent history?
HEATHER KEITH, a writer with Baptist World Aid Australia, looks at what experience has taught her about praying and hoping for peace in our conflicted world…
This Life: When disaster strikes
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects on the floods that changed her life – and that of many others – in Australia’s Northern Rivers region two years ago…
Weird animals
If you study animals, humans really are odd. Our bodies and instincts mesh with the natural world, but our conscious thought, logic, morality, and love are bizarre. PICTURE: alice-photo/iStockphoto It’s like something, or someone, dropped a conscious soul into our fleshly bodies. We have all sorts of weird theories to explain this – alien seeding, […]
Sight-Seeing: The elegant music of grace in a tone-deaf world
NILS VON KALM expresses his thankfulness for God’s gift of grace…
Sight-Seeing: We want God to be like Batman
Writing from the US, Catholic columnist THOMAS REESE says – in an article first published on Religion News Service – that deep in our hearts, we want God to beat up our enemies and punish evildoers…
This Life: Waiting for overflow in seasons of depletion
CHARISSA CHEONG reflects on how God refills those who are empty…
Falling, or standing, in love?
What an idea from psychiatrist Irvin Yalum – “there is a world of difference between falling in love and standing in love.” PICTURE: Christopher Beloch/Unsplash When you fall in love, you risk subsuming yourself in another person, becoming lost, dissolved in them. It sounds romantic, intoxicating: it is. But it’s our unconsciousness trying to deal with our loneliness, anxiety, and fear of […]
Sight-Seeing: Why I am still a Christian
NILS VON KALM reflects on his long walk with Jesus…