Teach your children
There are some in our society who believe you shouldn’t teach religion to children – “let them learn it later when they can make up their own mind”. PICTURE: gpointstudio/iStockphoto Most people in history would think such a view is crazy. Isn’t your faith integral to who you are? Your identity? Your culture? Of course, it is! […]
Essay: The personal details of Northern Ireland’s main police force have been leaked – three reasons why that’s incredibly dangerous
KEVIN HEARTY, of Queens University Belfast, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at why this week’s data breach is so significant…
This Life: The world is not our home
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, reflects on how having a relationship with Jesus helped her discover her “true identity”…
Wow!: For refugees in Cameroon, digital IDs are a life changer
MAIKEM EMMANUELA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that digital identity cards are helping Central African refugees to access education, healthcare and banking but that experts say but data privacy is vital…
Big stories
Why are we not as unified as we seemed in the past? What is your ‘big story’? PICTURE: Samantha Sophia/Unsplash French sociologist Émile Durkheim argued it is a community’s shared overarching stories that defined a society; quite literally the stories constructed society. If we all have the same story – The Exodus, Dreamtime or Easter […]
ESSAY: COVID-19 COULD END CHURCH AS WE KNOW IT. AND I FEEL FINE
In an article first published on Religion News Service, C CHRISTOPHER SMITH, author of ‘How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church’, says the coronavirus crisis has provided the church with the opportunity to reflect on some key questions of identity and mission…
SIGHT-SEEING: HOW “GOOD” CAN YOU HANDLE IT?
NILS VON KALM looks at how the grace of Jesus Christ can transform our lives – but we have to accept it first…
SIGHT-SEEING: YOUR SIN DOESN’T DEFINE YOU
NILS VON KALM looks at what the Bible says about why sin doesn’t define us…
Inclusive or invasive? Digital ID stirs debate
Thomson Reuters Foundation Digital identity systems are a “revolutionary” way to provide the world’s most vulnerable with access to essential services, but must protect their privacy, philanthropists, businesses and charities said on Friday. More than one billion people globally have no way of proving their identity, according to the World Bank, which experts say excludes […]
TEXTING
It amazes me how differently people can come across in text messages! PICTURE: Daria Nepriakhina/Unsplash When it comes to texting, some people are all serious and formal, even though you know them to be relaxed and spontaneous. Other people can come across all ‘giddy-as-a-schoolgirl’, using all those emoticons and abbreviations, when in real life they are […]