Anzac Day always makes me think about my grandparents, and their personal courage and losses during the First and Second World Wars. Anzac Day holds a special place in the imaginations of Australians and New Zealanders. But, war is dreadful, and Jesus calls us to be...
Review of “Healing Our Broken Humanity” by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Hill Reviewed by Ngwedla Paul Msiza (President, Baptist World Alliance) People like me who were born and raised in a country like South Africa – where racism, nationalism, and misogyny...
We have poisoned the earth God gave us. We have ignored the command God gave us to nurture and protect and care for the planet. A recent study released in the journal Science says we are eating away at our own life support systems, at a rate unseen in the past 10,000...
As I write this, many of us are keenly watching the US Presidential race. The personalities are colorful, the contest is fierce, and much is at stake. In my own country, Australia, we've had 4 Prime Ministers in the last 4 years! I grew up in a household that didn’t...
The Rise of the Middle Kingdom - Reflections on the Indigenous Mission Movement By Ai Hua One of the remarkable areas of global progress of the 21stcentury is the rise of...
We’ve seen far too much abuse of power in the church. Women, minorities, the young, the poor, and the vulnerable have especially suffered from this abuse of power. So, how do we relinquish power? And how do we embrace a different kind of power (the power of the cross...
"Human beings are moved by beauty. If we want to change the world, we need, first of all, to be able to make people dream about beauty. The church has totally forgotten this. We are a bit uneasy with beauty… We seem to be obsessed with the idea of doing things…...
“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of...