Sight-Seeing: How to bridge the yawning divide between us
NILS VON KALM reflects on Jesus’ call for unity – even those you strongly disagree with… Melbourne, Australia “I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other, and they don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other, and […]
Open Book: Looking again at the Parable of the Pounds
NILS VON KALM puts forward the arguments for a different approach to the Parable of the Pounds found in Luke 19…
ESSAY: WHAT IS THE GREAT COMMISSION AND WHY IS IT SO CONTROVERSIAL?
In an article first published on The Conversation, MATHEW SCHMALTZ, associate professor of religion at the College of the Holy Cross, looks at the concept of The Great Commission…
SIGHT-SEEING: THE TIME GOD SPOKE
In an excerpt from his new book, Marked by Love, US pastor and author TIM STEVENS looks at what God said, when, in the early pages of the Gospel of Matthew, He spoke for the first time in 400 years…
THIS LIFE: IS YOUR FAITH GREATER THAN YOUR FEARS?
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at the relationship between fear and faith…
OPEN BOOK SPECIAL: “HE HAS RISEN, JUST AS HE SAID”
In an Easter special, BRUCE C WEARNE looks at what Matthew records in chapter 28 – in the final passage of his Gospel – about the resurrection and its implications for then and now…