Category: Theological Reflection

A Bible Anyone Could Read Have you ever opened a Bible, an app, or listened to a verse read aloud, and understood it straight away, with no one needing to explain it to you? That ease is easy to take for granted. But it came at a cost. This year marks five hundred years since…

I Will Go: A Reflection on Genesis 24 I remember when I was a child how weddings happened in our village in South India. A marriage never began with the two young people who were going to be married. It began somewhere else entirely, in quiet conversations between parents, in questions asked of distant relatives,…

“My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?” “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” – which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34 (cf. Psalm 22:1) Of all the seven last words spoken from the cross, this one silences everything else. It does not offer comfort to a dying…