Russell Brand, Fox News and Charlie Hebdo
I am not Charlie: a Christian response to the killings in Paris – Bob Ekblad
I was deeply troubled by news of this week’s killings of journalists at Charlie Hebdo, France’s beloved satirical newspaper, by two French Muslim brothers of Algerian descent, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi. I’ve been haunted by footage I saw of these gunmen’s...
Mercy-Love – Eric H Janzen
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus begins with a list of blessings. Among these, we find a call to mercy coupled with a promise: Joyful are the merciful, for they shall be rejoicing daily in the mercy they receive. Mercy is important. Perhaps, more important than many...
Review of N.T. Wright’s ‘Simply Good News’ – by Caleb Miller
NT Wright is one of those authors of whom I tell people “buy everything he writes”. Not necessarily because I agree with every assertion he makes, but the level of scholarship with which each topic he discusses is approached. Simply Good News is no...
Thomas Merton: Wild Bird – Ron Dart
Elias becomes his own wild bird, with God in the center, His own wide field which nobody owns, His own pattern, surrounding the Spirit ...
Christ and Nothing – David Bentley Hart
David B. Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian. The original version of this article was delivered as a lecture at a conference on the Ten Commandments held at St. Olaf’s College in Northfield, Minnesota, June 2003, under the joint sponsorship of the Center for...
Each Step By Bloody, Halting Step – Boyd Barrett
New poetry from www.boydbarrett.com Each step by bloody, halting step Each step by bloody, halting step we marched behind a sound which first did barely reach our ears yet louder whispers through the years made firm our trodden ground Each step by bloody,...
The Angel’s Song is not merely a Seasonal Favourite – Henry Smidstra
St. Luke’s Gospel account begins and ends in the temple, a creative, stylistic, arrangement of the Gospel. At the outset, a thin religion of externals is silenced and a whole new era is announced by heavenly voices in the in the open grazing region far distant from...
Where is God when Innocent Children Die? Massacre of the Innocents – Martin Little
13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”...
Angelic Protest and Christmas Hope – Jarrod McKenna
Truly He taught us to love one another; His law is love and His gospel is peace. Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother; And in His name all oppression shall cease. Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we, Let all within us praise His holy name.