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an Atheist, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim walk into a bar …
… (or, at least, a TV studio) and talk about religion and being human. Here’s Jane Caro, Antony Loewenstein and Simon Smart talking about some themes from their new book, For God’s Sake: Filed under:...
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John Roxborogh’s A History of Christianity in Malaysia
The Presbyterian minister and historian John Roxborogh has been accumulating research notes and scraps of information on Christianity in Malaysia and Southeast Asia for thirty years. Some of the fruit...
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On religion and civil society: a response to Simone Sinn
Last week, I was again in Geneva participating in a colloquium on religion and state. The meeting had a particular focus on the ways in which Christianity and Islam conceive and negotiate their...
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On believing and confessing the one God, ‘although in different ways’
Ben Myers’s delightful and constructive offering yesterday to the discussion of whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God reminded me of Pope Gregory VII’s letter to Anzir, the King of...
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Some more perspectives on whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God
The Syrian Orthodox Church and the Omar Mosque, Old Town, Bethlehem, Palestine. Two very constructive contributions to the discussion birthed from recent events at Wheaton College: Robert Priest,...
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Settler Colonialism and the Freedom of Religion
Here’s my brilliant colleague, Mark Brett, talking about settler colonialism, the freedom of religion, and the witness-invitation of Roger Williams: Filed under: Aboriginal, Australia, Christianity,...
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On not singing the national anthem
A friend in Tweetland (and Zuckerland) is wondering whether his kids, who are Christians and who are about to start school, should be encouraged or discouraged to sing the Australian National Anthem –...
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on white christendom
‘White Christendom in America survives pathetically. The traditions and ethics of the inherited, white denominations – as their adherents sense privately, and everyone else acknowledges openly – are...
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Summoned to be Christian Amidst a Global Pandemic
A guest post by Trevor Hart I’ve been reading a book by Timothy Radcliffe entitled Alive in God: A Christian Imagination. And it has raised some troubling questions for me about Christian response to...
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Race and Christianity in Australia
Vernon Ah Kee, Austracism, 2003. Prints, digital print, printed in colour inks, from digital file, 120 x 180 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. I have a new essay out: ‘Race and Christianity...
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