politics & policy
How do we stand for Jesus in a time of fragile peace?
Krish Kandiah
This year we celebrate 80 years since the end of the Second World War. It’s a remarkable gift from God that countries that were once in conflict have found a way to not only reconcile their differences but work, trade, cooperate, and live together in peace.
It’s a peace we perhaps have come to take for granted, and, with conflict once again rearing its brutal head in Europe and the Middle East, I fear it is also a fragile peace.
politics & policy
Gaza conflict: let’s go back to Scripture
Krish Kandiah
What is a Christian response to the recent Israel and Gaza conflict?
The 7 October marks one year since the terrible attack by Hamas on Israel. According to the Israeli government, over 1,195 people were killed, including the later deaths of hostages in Gaza. At least 815 were civilians and 282 women and 36 children were among the dead. It was a cruel, brutal and wicked attack that has left 100 hostages still unaccounted for.
politics & policy
Are we good-news people?
Krish Kandiah
It’s time for us to rediscover our good news heritage. We cannot continue to stand by and watch as Christianity in general and evangelicalism in particular becomes increasingly associated with a political stance that is hostile, apathetic or nationalistic, or with a social stance that is judgmental and separatist.
More often than not when secular commentators talk about evangelicals, they are talking less about Christians that hold to a set of gospel beliefs and more about a demographic group who vote in a certain way in US elections. It is tragic that we are too often defined more by our views on sex, death and immigration than by our views on the resurrection and eternal life. We are, sadly, becoming better known for what we stand against than what we stand for.
