Life’s Tough Questions: Is it sinful for Christians to trust themselves?
NILS VON KALM provides his take…
Sight-Seeing: The Bible suggests even God gets lonely. Why don’t religious people talk more about it
There is much to be learned from loneliness: prophecy, solidarity, fun, freedom – even creativity, writes DWIGHT LEE WOLTER in an article first published on Religion News Service…
Sin
Sin is one of those words we want to avoid today, and the reality that we are all sinners. PICTURE: enterlinedesign/Shutterstock I remember the people arguing to remove religious instruction from schools decrying how harmful it was to tell children they are sinners. Yet it is a strange philosophical paradox. It is only when you honestly […]
Sight-Seeing: The restorative justice of God
NILS VON KALM argues that our division of people into “good” and “bad” is not the way Jesus sees us…
Pope clarifies homosexuality and sin comments in note
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis has clarified his recent comments about homosexuality and sin, saying he was merely referring to official Catholic moral teaching that teaches that any sexual act outside of marriage is a sin. And in a note Friday, Francis recalled that even that black-and-white teaching is subject to circumstances that might eliminate the […]
Sight-Seeing: Why Christians need to rethink holiness
NILS VON KALM looks at how Jesus saw the concept of holiness…
Books: Biblical insights into the issue of anxiety
DAVID ADAMS reads Paul Grimmond’s book addressing the issue of anxiety, ‘When The Noise Won’t Stop’…
In the short run…
In the short run sin gives you an advantage – cheating, lying, stealing, pleasure. But in the long run it brings a disadvantage – and the longer the run, the bigger the cost. Running a race. PICTURE: Jonathan Chng/Unsplash Think about sport. The first time you bend the rules, if you get away with it, […]
Forgiveness
I came across this prayer recently: “Lord help me forgive those who sin differently than I.” PICTURE: Zoe/Unsplash I could ponder that all day! It’s easy to forgive people who suffer the same sins and temptations as I do. I mean, those sins are real, and difficult. I know what that’s like – I can […]
Sight-Seeing: Restoring awe, mystery and wonder in our faith
NILS VON KALM argues that the more we attempt to remove awe and mystery from life, “the more we remove some of the life from our culture”…