Dave Andrews We need to be clear about the distinction between being ‘elderly’ and being ‘elders’. Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi says on the one hand the elderly are often ‘plagued by a gradually mounting sense of alienation, loneliness, and social uselessness’- so they ‘age without sage-ing’.  On the other hand, elders, while age-ing, ‘go through […]

Dave Andrews I have a friend called Zalman Kastel who is an orthodox Jewish Rabbi. One day I asked Zalman what he finds most confronting in the teaching of Jesus. He said it was his radical call to practice unflinching non-violence in the face of violence. I said to him that many Christians aren’t even […]

Almost thirty years after I was excommunicated from Dilaram by YWAM, I took the opportunity to visit the International YWAMer office in Colorado, U.S. My friend Paul Filidis, the director of YWAM International Communications, and Bryan Bishop, the editor of the International YWAMer, kindly invited me to reflect on what I had learned from my […]

Dave Andrews For last twenty years, since  9/11 in 2001, I have been intentionally developing faith-based inter-faith shaped dialogue between Christians and Muslims. One of the ways I have been developing solidarity with my Muslim friends is by observing Ramadan and sharing a Ramadan reflection with them on Facebook every day. For Ramadan this year […]

Dave Andrews The occupation of Ukrainian towns by Russian troops reminds me of the time I asked a woman what it was like for her as a female to live in a male dominated society, and she told me it was like living under occupation, where women are always under the threat of assault by […]

There are two types of people: Those who think there are two types, and those who don’t! These are some of my own provisional personal reflections on the topic of “dualism and nondualism” that, in our time, the world’s favourite Franciscan, Richard Rohr, has put forward in his writings for our consideration and discussion. Some […]

                                                                 Did you hear about the man swallowed by a whale? Early on Friday morning June 11 2021, Michael Packard was diving for lobster off the east coast of the USA “when, suddenly, everything went dark. ‘Oh my God, I’m in a whale’s mouth, and he’s trying to swallow me’,” recounted the lobster diver. “I […]

This is the eighth in a series of interviews with Philippe Kiener. These interviews are accompanied by quotes from my new book ‘To Right Every Wrong’, songs and suggestions for meditation, discussion and action. If you study all religions it’s very clear that we all believe that we should treat our neighbor as ourselves. And […]

This is the seventh in a series of interviews with Philippe Kiener. These interviews are accompanied by quotes from my new book ‘To Right Every Wrong’, songs and suggestions for meditation, discussion and action My understanding is that the early church fought over the issue of whether Gentiles had to become Jews in order to […]

This is the fifth in a series of interviews with Philippe Kiener. These interviews are accompanied by quotes from my new book ‘To Right Every Wrong’, songs and suggestions for meditation, discussion and action. One of my concerns is that Christians want to have a monopoly on Jesus. And I think we need to liberate […]

This is the fifth in a series of interviews with Philippe Kiener. These interviews are accompanied by quotes from my new book ‘To Right Every Wrong’, songs and suggestions for meditation, discussion and action. I think the Beatitudes is not just for people of all religions, but for people with no religion. In fact, I […]

This is the fourth in a series of interviews with Philippe Kiener. These interviews are accompanied by quotes from my new book ‘To Right Every Wrong’, songs and suggestions for meditation, discussion and action. The Beatitudes are a call for people to identify with the poor in spirit; to enter into their pain empathetically; to […]