Open Book: How Jesus enters the pain of the oppressed
NILS VON KALM looks at a passage in Mark’s Gospel in which Jesus encounters a man possessed by an “impure spirit”…
Open Book: Jonah is a prophet for today
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza…
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…
Open Book: What do you see?
NILS VON KALM says the Gospel account of Jesus’ interaction with a man born blind – often known as “the healing of the man born blind” – is ultimately about how we see Jesus…
Open Book: I, Peter – How the Gospel heals your shame
NILS VON KALM reflects on the Gospel story of Peter…
Open Book: A healing of holistic proportions
NILS VON KALM looks at the Gospel account of Jesus’ meeting with a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for 12 years…
OPEN BOOK – THE PRISONER’S LETTER: BEARING THE MESSAGE
BRUCE C WEARNE looks at the closing verses of Ephesians…
OPEN BOOK – THE PRISONER’S LETTER: GIRD UP!
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his examination of Ephesians chapter six with a look at a famous passage on spiritual warfare…
OPEN BOOK – THE PRISONER’S LETTER: A “CULMINATING ANTHEM”, PART II
BRUCE C WEARNE, in the second part of a two part article, continues his examination of a sometimes controversial passage in Ephesians about husbands and wives…
OPEN BOOK – THE PRISONER’S LETTER: A “CULMINATING ANTHEM”, PART I
BRUCE C WEARNE, in the first part of a two part article, looks at a sometimes controversial passage in Ephesians about husbands and wives…