Category: Belief Matters
Faith and Fermentation: Christianity’s Complicated Relationship with Alcohol
In John’s Gospel, Jesus’ first miracle was turning water into wine (John 2:11). Martin Luther was a home brewer. Beer mogul Arthur Guinness was inspired by a John...
Where do we find validation?
Exactly where people find validation in life fascinates international speaker and apologist Max Jeganathan. As a Senior Apologist with Ravi Zacharias International...
Reading the Good News 14 billion times
Enough with the heavy content, here is some news to smile about. Bible Gateway, the online Bible search engine, announced that in its 25 years of operating it has...
Reflection: Sovereign Peoples
Among many heavy decisions that were made at the Assembly meeting in Melbourne, one was the following: That the Assembly resolve: to affirm that the First Peoples of...
Yes you should take that vacation, the Bible says so
We are living in a society that no matter how much we complain, we are addicted to working. The Census 2016 found that in Sydney’s North one in five full-time...
Assembly Proposal Seeks Renewed Witness
A motion introduced at Assembly will call on the Uniting Church to renew how it expresses its faith. “[W]e propose that the UCA listen to and formally receive the...
Telling the Truth: Our Reality Bathed in Light
When I was an actor, tech week was the bane of my existence. The nights are long and slow, but more pointedly, instead of being the stars of the show actors are reduced...
What I want to say to the church
Recently I went out to dinner with a small group of people. While some of us were already known to each other, some in the group had never met. We had a great night, and...
Chris Pratt preaches during awards acceptance
Hollywood superstar Chris Pratt brought faith to a different kind of pulpit during the MTV Movie Awards on 19 June. The star of Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic...
Forming Disciples -Theologically
The theological world recently mourned the death of Professor James Cone, a prominent African American theologian who taught for many years at Union Theological Seminary...
