Niebuhr in Asia: Christianity and Culture

August 2016 Feature Article When we speak of ‘culture’, what do we mean? It is a notoriously slippery term, especially so when an Australian is writing for an unseen global readership! Culture can be ‘your culture’, ‘my culture’ or ‘our culture’. It can be as broad or...

The Christian Mind

June 2016 Feature Article “We take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5)  is what comes to my mind in writing about engagement of the mind.  In 2 Corinthians 10, Paul writes about how we are not waging war according to the flesh but have divine...

Religion and Violence

May 2016 Feature Article We have recently witnessed tragic events of violence in many parts of the world.  The massacres in Belgium, Paris, and Pakistan, the shooting in California, the tension in Jerusalem, and the terrorist attacks in Turkey, Egypt, Ivory Coast, and...

Two Kinds of Secularism, and Social Peace

April 2016 Feature Article Christians are severely persecuted in many places, including the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia.  Meanwhile, in the West, Christians are also subjected to increasing slander, vilification, and legal assault in all areas of life, both...