Just as you are — with Jean Vanier
Thomas Merton and Personhood — Ron Dart & Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
They Died in Vain; Deal with it – by Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC. During his career as a CIA analyst, he prepared and briefed the President's Daily Brief and chaired National Intelligence Estimates. He is a member...
God is Like Jesus by Brian Zahnd
God is like Jesus.God has always been like Jesus.There has never been a time when God was not like Jesus.We have not always known what God is like—But now we do. Consider these two foundational truths of Christian theology: 1. God is immutable. i.e. God...
Simone Weil on ‘Forgive us our debts’ – trans. Brad Jersak
In the moment that we say these words, we must already have remitted all debts. This includes not only letting go of the reparation of any offences we think we have suffered; but also any recognition and gratitude for the good we think we have done. And in a completely general way, anything that we expect from people or things, everything we believe is our due, the absence of which has made us feel frustrated.
John Stott: Evangelical Abba (April 1921-July 2011) by Ron Dart
The death of John Stott will be mourned by countless Christians around the world. (Archbishop Rowan Williams) I was young and keen to learn much about the Christian faith in the late 1960s-early 1970s, and high on my reading list were books by F.F. Bruce, C.S. Lewis...
Weapons surrendered to those guided by the Bible
"We knew that we had created a new means of warfare and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared...
Love Wins — An Orthodox View by Steve Robinson
John Watson’s ‘Listening to Islam’ — Review by Ron Dart
John Watson, Listening to Islam with Thomas Merton, Sayyid Qutb, Kenneth Cragg and Ziauddin Sardar: Praise, Reason and Reflection (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2005). How is the post-secular pluralist west to make sense of Islam? There has been,...
Jesus gives us an alternative to violence. Forgiveness. Jesus didn’t just theorize about it, he lived it. On the cross Christ made his message credible. He lived it all the way to the end. And calls us to follow him.