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On being a Christian
One of the books that I’m currently re-reading is Tom Smail’s, The Forgotten Father. I’d forgotten how remarkable this book is as it seeks to bring us to the heart of the Gospel in the Fatherhood of...
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Karl Barth on the task of every Christian
‘Biblical study … is not merely the affair of a few specialists but fundamentally of all the members of the community. For none is infallible, and all need to be subject to the control of the rest. And...
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A Symposium: Aspects of Māori Christianity and Mission
Aspects of Māori Christianity and Mission Historical, Theological and Contemporary Perspectives A Symposium, November 18–19, 2009 Last year a number of University of Otāgo academics formed a research...
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Karl Barth on worship and the cost of discipleship (on Romans 12:1–2)
To celebrate my recent success, I awarded myself with a copy of The Early Preaching of Karl Barth: Fourteen Sermons with Commentary by William H. Willimon. Thus far, I’ve resisted the temptation to...
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‘Take this book back again’: the Bible and the development of a returns policy
While watching Bill Maher’s recent rant, I was reminded of, and challanged by, another, and much more impressive, ranter – Søren Kierkegaard – and the Dane’s tirade against Bible commentators: ‘The...
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On helping Tony Abbott to be a Christian
I am so encouraged that Australia’s opposition leader, the honourable Tony Abbott, takes seemingly every opportunity to publicly offer every indication of his sincere intent on being a good Christian....
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On jobs for Christians
Article 16 of The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c. 215) notes that there are (or were) some occupations that are simply deemed incompatible with being a Christian. (Parallel lists appear...
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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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