ESSAY: CHRISTIAN SUFFERING AND THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
With 29th July designated Earth Overshoot Day – the annual point at which demand on Earth’s resources exceeds what the planet can regenerate in a full year, Australian Catholic theologian and author NEIL ORMEROD looks at the role Christians can play in ushering in change…
ESSAY: DON’T ROMANTICISE SUFFERING FOLLOWING THE AURORA MASS SHOOTING
Writing in the wake of another mass shooting in the US, JAMIE D ATEN, executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College and spokesperson for anti-gun violence advocacy Prayers & Action, looks at the connection of growth and suffering…
SUFFERING
Suffering is one of the profound mysteries of existence. The fact that we recognise suffering assumes good and evil, which philosophically, is strong evidence for the divine. PICTURE: Cullan Smith/Unsplash In a materialistic world, such categories would simply not occur to us! So how are we to understand suffering? Much suffering is simply pure evil, […]
THE BIG PICTURE: ‘WHEN GOD USES EVIL FOR GOOD’
See OUTREACH MEDIA’s March poster…
THE INTERVIEW: KATE BOWLER ON WHAT LIVING WITH A DEATH SENTENCE CAN TEACH US ALL ABOUT LIFE
Kate Bowler is a wife, mother and historian who was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Her new book, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved, is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about enduring and responding to tragedy. She speaks with JONATHAN MERRITT, of Religion News Service…
OPEN BOOK: I THESSALONIANS – SHARING IN THE SAME COMMUNITY
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at I Thessalonians with a passage in which Paul likens the suffering of the Thessalonian church with that in Judea…
‘RAH, RAH CULTURE’
It’s easy to be drawn into the ‘rah, rah culture’, especially in church. PICTURE: Unsplash/Eberhard Grossgasteiger You know, enthusiastic messages that say, ‘You are a world changer for God’. It’s a great way to excite a crowd, have people dream of a glorious future, but is it true? What awaits most people is a job […]
A GOD WHO SUFFERS WITH US
Critics of Christianity have often mocked – ‘Surely God could think of a better way to save us than sending His Son to die on a cross.’ FLYING FREE. PICTURE: Lois Carroll/www.freeimages.com Don’t they realise the cross poignantly demonstrates God’s solidarity with all those who have ever suffered? God could have sent a postcard. […]
THIS LIFE: WHY DOES GOD ALLOW BAD THINGS TO HAPPEN?
US columnist CAROL ROUND addresses one of the big questions of life…
ESSAY: SECURITY IS NOT EVERYTHING
In an article first published by Religion News Service, TIM BREENE, CEO of US humanitarian organisation World Relief, says Americans should not compromise their compassion in their treatment of those who are suffering…