Dave Andrews My greatest, some might say ‘totally disqualifying’ disadvantage in writing a blurb for The Covenants With Allah written by Halim Rane and Ibrahim Zein, is I am not a Muslim, do not know Arabic and can only access the sources uncovered in this book through translations. However, my greatest, and I think ‘most […]

Thomas Jay Ord A number of problems arise when assessing the nature and occurrence of miracles. Some problems arise from views of divine action. There’s also the fact that people’s belief in miracles can be explained psychologically, belief in miracles seems influenced by culture, and some may simply reflect the trickery of religious hucksters. Other […]

David Ranson Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for moreA Service Shaped by Christian IdentityDavid Ranson What does it mean for a charity, an organisation or a church, to be truly Christian in a time when Christian identity is contested? David Ranson suggests that identity cannot be separated from mission – that it emerges through engagement, dialogue, and service. He […]

This is an audio essay from Process This, my Substack — head over there if you want more essays like this one, and subscribe if you want them delivered to you. In this one, I’m going deep on a question that sounds biographical but is actually theological: how did Dietrich Bonhoeffer — the man who […]

What if everything you’ve been taught about God’s justice is incomplete—or worse, backwards?What if the biblical vision of divine justice is far more radical, compassionate, and transformative than traditional Christianity has dared to imagine? These are the revolutionary questions that Pete Enns and John Dominic Crossan will explore in our upcoming four-week online class, The God of Justice, offering participants a chance […]

The other day I was listening to an interview by Michael Steele with David French. David is a conservative evangelical who is critical of the rise of divisive, dominant and dominating Christian Nationalism in the USA today. David is a columnist for the New York Times and the author of many books including ‘Divided We […]

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, […]