What will transform us? What will make Christians become the sort of people we should be? The glorious list of rules God gave us won’t do it. The Law of God so shines with God’s glory, that Moses, having received the law had to hide his face behind a veil. Yet the law that came […]

Watching The Hunger Games left me deeply disturbed. The film engages with three communities: the controlling community that satiates its lust in the “amusing” spectacle of teenagers slaughtering each other; the voyeuristic community of virtual slaves that enjoys the horror of participation in self-serving sacrificial offering-up of its youth; and the cinema audience that is […]

Another school year has just started. How can parents help children gain the most from this year’s schooling? Schools build into children’s minds a matrix of facts, experience, interpretation and ideology that shapes belief and behaviour. Children with a biblical worldview filter, arrange, and apply what is learnt to begin to think God’s thoughts after […]

Should aliens eat meat offered to idols? That is, how should Christians as aliens and strangers on earth interact with surrounding cultures in which they live? Faithfulness to Christ means separation from those cultures (2 Corinthians 6:17).  Yet following Christ’s example we are to live among them, engage with them, eat with them, help them, […]

God’s aliens are separated from the people of the world, not by location but by life-style.Christians are aliens and strangers on earth, immersed in the culture of the cross and the hope of heaven (Hebrews 11:14-16), living for God in the midst of people living without God. Monasticism is a perversion of God’s call to […]