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Continue reading →: Condemning All Political Violence, Whoever Commits ItI have consistently condemned political violence since I began blogging decades ago. I have explicitly denounced Hamas terrorism against civilians on multiple occasions. That is why I reject the false equation that my opposition to Israeli genocide of Palestinian civilians is the same as support for Hamas. Violence against civilians…
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Continue reading →: Genesis 3:16 and the Roots of PatriarchyI recently came across someone claiming Genesis 3:16 shows the Bible endorses misogyny. I get why it might sound that way, but that’s not what’s going on. “To the woman he said, ‘I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children.…
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Continue reading →: Galatians Revisited: Why Christian Nationalism Betrays the GospelIn Galatians, Paul is clear: the good news of Jesus is not bound to any one nation, culture, or ethnicity. When some insisted that Gentile believers had to take on Jewish cultural identity markers to truly belong, Paul named it for what it was, a distortion of the gospel. Christian…
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Continue reading →: Nepalese Buddhism from a Christian PerspectiveA conversation the other day nudged me to look more closely at Buddhism in Nepal. Though I expected Tibetan influences given Nepal’s proximity to the Himalayas, what I found was a far more layered picture. Nepal is home to three distinct strands of Buddhism: All three mingle in Nepal’s cultural…
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Continue reading →: Immigration, Identity, and Jesus: A Challenge for Australian ChristiansThere’s a lot of fear in the air when it comes to immigration and multicultural Australia. Some say we’re being overrun, or that whole towns are under foreign laws. Others paint every migrant community as a threat. But as Christians, we need to be honest: that’s not the voice of…
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Continue reading →: Rejecting Violence in the Wake of Charlie Kirk’s DeathViolence is never the way of Jesus. Whatever our politics, whoever the victim, Christians must say clearly: we repudiate political violence without exception. I won’t pretend it is easy to grieve for someone whose public life often denied empathy to others. But I do affirm that he, like every person,…
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Continue reading →: Haiku: Seed Falls On The GroundSeed falls on the ground,Some finds earth, others lay bare—Growth blooms where hearts care.
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Continue reading →: Christians vs Muslims: The Chess EditionI have long been drawn to this illustration from The Libro de los Juegos (13th century CE), which depicts a Muslim and a Christian facing each other across a chessboard. As an avid chess fan, I find it fascinating to consider the long history of the game, and the suggestion…
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Continue reading →: Be Gentle with YourselfLet’s remember that confession, before God in prayer, is about self-honesty, not self-punishment. We are called to face our flaws with courage, not to hide them in shame. The aim is to work through our failures to become better versions of ourselves, not to kick ourselves down for being imperfect.…
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