Via Dolorosa (The Way of Sorrow)
In February 2015, Gay Byrne, host of the Irish religious television programme The Meaning of Life, asked militant atheist Stephen Fry what he would say to God if he...
Women: Different but Equal
In an article in the 1991 issue of Christianity Today entitled, ‘Let’s Stop Making Women Presbyters’, evangelical theologian and leader J. I. Packer wrote: ‘Presbyters are set apart for a...
Resurrection or Hallucination?
Throughout the history of the Church, there have been numerous attempts by her adversaries to debunk the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. It seems that these detractors...
Difficult Love
In 2017, ISIS detonated bombs at two Coptic churches in Egypt during their Palm Sunday services that killed at least 45 worshippers. The first explosion, which killed 27...
Miracles
Even the most casual reader of the Gospels will be struck by the many stories of miracles they tell. On page after page, the Gospel writers describe Jesus...
Loving your digital neighbour
Director of Theos Think Tank, Elizabeth Oldfield, explores new media and reconciliation in an age of incivility Despite public perceptions that religion causes violence and division, Christianity has...
Loving Obedience
At the beginning of the 19th century, the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley declared that obedience is the “bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, “for it makes slaves...
Grappling with our Christian and Asian Cultural Identities
Should Christians participate in Chinese rites? Can we use Traditional Chinese Medicine or Ayurveda (Indian medicine)? Is it wrong for Christians to practise Yoga or Taiji Quan or...
Citizens of Heaven on Earth
Recently, I became acquainted with the striking story of a 22 year old Singaporean while visiting a friend in San Francisco. At the age of 3, he relocated...
Proverbs: Rulers and Working for Justice
Israel’s kings had a hand in the composition of the Book of Proverbs (Prov. 1:1; 25:1). It is not surprising, then, that some of the sayings in Proverbs...
A Common Platform
For anyone living in this century, it is evident that one of the contemporary issues facing the world today is that of religious diversity. From the perspective of...
Religion and Magic
One of the most fascinating figures in Acts is Simon Magus, who made his appearance in Acts 8, where Luke gives an account of the founding of the...