Dear friends,If you think all hope is lost, think again.This weekend, everyone expected the extreme right to win in France.Millions of people had other ideas.They voted. In droves!And they beat the far right’s hate and division. Into third place. It’s unbelievable!And it’s not just in France. In the biggest election year in history, far-right populists were […]

Right now, Sudan is hell on Earth. A genocidal army has raped and massacred thousands of people. There’s evidence of child soldiers fighting and dying, and mass graves dot the desert. Now Darfur’s capital is under attack, with almost a million refugees trapped inside. Experts are calling it a “killbox.” These unspeakable atrocities are happening […]

THE CHALLENGE OF GAZA FOR JUDAISM – TO MOVE BEYOND ZIONISM, ETHNO-NATIONALISM AND MILITARISM Preamble Rabbi Brant Rosen and the board of the congregation and synagogue of Tzedek Chicago recently released this statement in response to Israel’s ongoing military assault in Gaza. Although it is addressed to all people of conscience, it contains a specific […]

Aaron White I don’t think I have to convince anyone that war is evil. We all know that it is. Here are the statistics for three ongoing wars, as of Nov 18, 2023: Stats One of the main results of displacement is that children become more and more vulnerable to sexual exploitation, slavery, and being […]

n 2009, one of Google’s self-driving cars came to an intersection with a four-way stop. It came to a halt and waited for other cars to do the same before proceeding through. Apparently, that is the rule it was taught—but of course, that is not what people do. So the robot car got completely paralyzed, […]

David Cramer, managing editor of the Institute of Mennonites Studies, lecturer at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), and teaching pastor at Keller Park Church shares about his recent book: A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence: Key Thinkers, Activists, and Movements for the Gospel of Peace.

How has race shaped US religion and politics? “Christian nationalism” has taken hold in the country, especially among white evangelicals. And the country’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is facing its own reckoning over racial issues. With Christianity Today Magazine’s global editor Morgan Lee. A landmark book called Statements From The Soul makes a powerful case that the […]

WORD OF WARNING FOR DEAR CHARISMATIC FRIENDS I have been listening to this series of podcasts on ‘Charismatic Revival Fury’ by Dr Matthew Taylor, from the Institute of Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Baltimore, USA. Matt examines the history of this ‘Christian Supremacist’ movement, with its origin in ‘The New Apostolic Reformation’, whose apostles advocate […]

By Joshua Moritz Psalm 77 declares “You are the God who works wonders; You display Your strength among the peoples…but Your footprints were unseen.” From the time of the Psalmist to the present day, both believers and skeptics have tried to make sense of God’s hiddenness. At the heart of the philosophical problem of God’s […]

Teresa M Bejan There are few perennials in politics as predictable as the “crisis of civility”. Over the past three decades, this crisis has become a permanent affliction in liberal democratic societies — particularly those that define themselves by their aspiration to be tolerant, open, and free. So in the United States, or in the […]

Harsh Mander on how India’s leaders have taken it to the edge of the abyss. Harsh Mander is an Indian author, columnist, researcher, teacher, and social activist who started the Karwan-e-Mohabbat campaign in solidarity with the victims of communal or religiously motivated violence. He is the Director of the Centre for Equity Studies, a research […]

The 2021 census data released this week shows that, for the first time, a majority of Australians do not identify as Christians. This continues a trend of steep drops in Christian identification at the census — from 74 per cent in 1991, to 61 per cent in 2011, to 52 per cent in 2016, to 44 […]