Open Book: A healing of holistic proportions
NILS VON KALM looks at the Gospel account of Jesus’ meeting with a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for 12 years…
Sight-Seeing: We can be an army of wounded warriors – or a collective of wounded healers
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says that to be human is to be wounded, one way or another but that those hurts can then be wielded in ways that further wound or in ways that help heal…
This Life: Trusting God with the bigger picture
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects on trusting God, even when our prayers aren’t answered as we’d like…
The Interview: Rev Jan Naylor Cope, editor of National Cathedral sermon compilation, on lessons from the pandemic
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks with Rev Jan Naylor Cope about the cathedral’s expanded online congregation, the way it adapted Communion and the enduring lessons of pandemic preaching…
Moving on
I’m walking down the street and press the pedestrian crossing button, yet cross without waiting as there are no cars. PICTURE: Kai Pilger/Unsplash Twenty metres up the street the lights turn red. Cars stop, and I feel bad for making these people wait for no reason. The next day I’m walking the same street and […]
African faith leaders combat misleading theologies that promise cures for COVID-19
Nairobi, Kenya RNS When some African church pastors ordered their followers to eat grass or gulp petrol or even drink poison-laced water, their congregations have obeyed the instructions, thinking the practices would bring them closer to God. Many other pastors take their wellness advice a notch higher, claiming to heal conditions such as disability and […]
Sight-Seeing: The glory in our suffering
RICHARD KINGSLEY THOMAS writes about the challenges – and hope – facing those diagnosed with an incurable disease…
When marriages break down: How Australian churches are helping people move from “healing to hope”
PETA MCCARTNEY reports on how Australian churches are using the US created DivorceCare program to help people through marital breakdown, separation and divorce…
Soundbite – the TCM Update: Riley Clemmons on collaborations and how being a Christian is reflected in her music…
Riley Clemmons. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
Essay: Why genocide survivors can offer a way to heal from the trauma of the pandemic year
In an article first published on The Conversation, DONALD E MILLER, a professor of religion at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, looks at what the healing process of genocide survivors may offer for post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery…