This Life: The world needs more Audras
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, reflects on her encounter with someone she describes as a “shining example” of God’s love…
Essay: At the end of a mixed political year – Love, hope and faith abide
As she leaves her role, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the US-based Quaker lobby group Friends Committee on National Legislation, looks, in an article published by Religion News Service, at the past year and the ways political life in America has changed in the past decade…
Sight-Seeing: The glory in our suffering
RICHARD KINGSLEY THOMAS writes about the challenges – and hope – facing those diagnosed with an incurable disease…
Sight-Seeing: The crazy notion of forgiveness
NILS VON KALM looks at the importance – and power – of forgiveness especially in the lives of those who have been deeply hurt…
Sight-Seeing: If we really believe in equality, we won’t judge anyone
NILS VON KALM writes about the call for Christians to follow the model of Jesus Christ and extend love instead of judgement to others – no matter their failings…
Sight-Seeing: The simple, yet difficult, way of loving people as Jesus does
NILS VON KALM argues that too many Christians have become too focused on intellectual assent to a list of beliefs than living out the love of Christ…
Sight-Seeing: Our church suspended in-person worship until 2021. This one question sealed the deal
ANDY STANLEY, founder and senior pastor of North Point Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia, looks – in an article published by Religion News Service, writes about why his network of churches decided to keep the doors closed in Atlanta until next year…
Sight-Seeing: Fear won’t win the coronavirus fight
In an article first published by Religion News Service, RICK MCDANIEL, founder and senior pastor of Richmond Community Church in Virginia and the author of ‘You Got Style’, explains why we must fight fear during the COVID-19 pandemic…
‘L’ plates
My daughter is learning to drive! It’s brought up a whole lot of feelings I didn’t expect! PICTURE: Oscar Nilsson/Unsplash My little girl driving a car- taking her life in her hands!? This is scary stuff – necessary, but scary! Unfortunately young people do die on our roads. I’ve done a couple of funerals. It’s […]
Essay: Fearing courageously in the face of COVID-19
In an article first published on Religion News Service, WARREN KINGDOM, a psychiatrist and theologian at Duke University and co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School, writes about the idea of “healthy fear” and its relationship to love…