This Life: When the innocent pay the price
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects on recent events in Sydney…
John Adams’ Nativity oratorio ‘El Nino’ gets colourful staging at the NYC Met
New York AP The children crumple and fall to the stage, victims of King Herod’s assassins. Then the Virgin Mary, in a voice brimming with anguish and outrage, memorialises the student protesters who were massacred by Mexican armed forces in 1968. This is El Nino, a retelling of the birth and early life of Jesus through a […]
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…
Life’s Tough Questions: Is it sinful for Christians to trust themselves?
NILS VON KALM provides his take…
The Explainer: For some Christians, a solar eclipse signals the second coming of Christ
In an article first published on The Conversation, sholar of early Christian literature ERIC VANDEN EYKEL looks at how some Christians view next week’s solar eclipse…
Essay: What that Bible Trump is selling says about truth
JIM WALLIS says that take a look inside that ‘God Bless the USA’ Bible and you’ll find that in the truth lies real freedom…
This Life: Are you hungry for more of God?
US columnist CAROL ROUND writes about the importance of partaking of “spiritual food”…
Good Friday
Remembering Jesus’ sacrifice…
The Explainer: What is Palm Sunday? Why is the donkey important to the story? And how is it celebrated worldwide?
As the world marked Palm Sunday on the weekend, LUIS ANDRES HENAO, of Associated Press, explains what the day is all about…
This Life: When the storms come
SAMANTHA ELLEY writes about turning to Jesus amid the storm…