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…
Grief
The greatest proof that we intrinsically need community is grief. Grief defies logic. We might live 1,000 kilometres from a loved one. Only talk to them once a month. PICTURE: Ben White/Unsplash When they pass away, your life may hardly change at all. Yet grief can then descend and obliterate your life. I know why […]
This Life: How would you describe true love?
US columnist CAROL ROUND looks at what the Bible says about what love really means…
Relationships: Are the Five Love Languages helpful? Yes, say researchers, but not the way people think
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, looks at a new study examining the real reason the bestselling book on love and relationships is a success…
Sight-Seeing: Only the enemy-loving Way of the Cross can save Israel and Gaza
NILS VON KALM reflects on how we, as Christians, are called to respond to the violence in Israel and Gaza…
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 […]
The Explainer: Why is a love poem full of sex in the Bible? Readers have been struggling with the Song of Songs for 2,000 years
As the world marks Valentine’s Day, JONATHAN KAPLAN, associate professor of Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism at the The University of Texas at Austin, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the Biblical book, Song of Songs…
This Life: When love came down at Christmas
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, writes about the “essence” of the celebration…
This Life: The most powerful thing in the world
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, reflects on the power of love…
Table Talk: Nourishing the soul (as well as the body)
EMMA WATSON looks at the role food can play in showing love to others, just as God shows love to us…