Social media can build relationships and enrich lives, or it can be a destructive, addictive, polarising medium. The choice is ours. So, how do we create social media content with humility, integrity, and a desire to enrich conversations and people’s lives? How do we...
Culture & Society
Karl Barth and a Theology of Mission
"The church exists to set up in the world a new sign which is radically dissimilar to the world's own manner and which contradicts it in a way which is full of promise." (Karl Barth, The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life, 22). Karl Barth's theology, especially as...
#MeToo – Stop asking women & girls to fix the problem! Men, #MeToo is on us
In the wake of recent revelations of sexual harassment in Hollywood, the #MeToo hashtag has been trending on social media. The aim is to raise awareness about how widespread the epidemic of sexual harassment and assault are. Sexual violence is a truly global problem....
Our World is Broken But Jesus Offers Restored, Reconciled, & Full Life (Colossians 1:15–23)
Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.” (Matthew 22:29).
Goodbye Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Rodrigo Duterte: Rejecting strongmen and their style of leadership
Recently, Donald Trump said he’d “be honored” to meet Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s bloodthirsty, brutal dictator. Trump called him a “pretty smart cookie,” who showed political ability at a young age. Donald Trump has also praised Russian president Vladmir Putin, as a...
Healing Our Broken Humanity: Preorder Today
"Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World" by Graham Hill and Grace Ji-Sun Kim Book Description We live in conflicted times. Our newsfeeds are filled with inequality, division, and fear. We want to make a...
Review of Henning Wrogemann’s Intercultural Theology, Volume One: Intercultural Hermeneutics
Book Review Intercultural Theology, Volume 1: Intercultural Hermeneutics By Henning Wrogemann Published by: IVP Academic, Downers Grove, IL, 2016, 431 pages. ISBN-10: 9780830850976ISBN-13: 978-0830850976 This review was first published in the "Australian Journal of...
12 Essential Qualities for Christian Spirituality & Theology in a New Urban World
To take head on oppressive structures like consumerism, militarism, multinational capitalism, international communism, racism, and sexism, we need a spirituality of missional engagement… Mission without spirituality cannot survive any more than combustion without...
Is Your Church Structured for Mission?
I grew up suspicious of structures. For me, institutions and organizations symbolized much that was wrong with the world. Sometimes I speculate on the source of this suspicion. How did it take root in my life? I came from a working-class background that...
We can’t ignore the sexism & racism shown in the 2016 Presidential Election
Let me make this clear: I respect the democratic processes and systems in the United States. I hope that President-elect Donald Trump will make a good President. I hope that he’ll renounce many of the divisive things he has said, and work hard to bring unity,...
Christians at the Border: A Review by Madison April Hill
M. Daniel Carroll R.’s Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, & the Bible is a powerful book that offers readers a view of immigration from a Christian perspective. The book aims to challenge how Christians feel about the issue from a biblical...
Abandoning a Diseased Christian Social Imagination
“I want Christians to recognize the grotesque nature of a social performance of Christianity that imagines Christian identity floating above land, landscape, animals, place, and space, leaving such realities to the machinations of capitalistic calculations and the...