The drastic Covid-19 ‘public health and safety measures’, with all their catastrophic mental and physical health impacts on society, demonstrate the extent to which, paradoxically, the quest for life at any cost turns out to be lethal.

Why would a faith worker join a union? The Faith Workers Alliance was formed because, like all other employees, faith workers deserve to be nurtured and appreciated and protected from exploitation.

What can Western Christians learn from the majority world church? As we come face to face with people in other cultures – with ‘the Other’ - our idols are exposed and we are invited to deeper knowing of God.

Though invisible to the naked eye, Covid-19 spreads around the globe, leaving traces of dislocation, anxiety, suffering and death. But also invisible and spreading around our pandemic-ridden earth are traces left by God.

Capitalism tells us to be independent: to go it alone, to rely on our merits, to avoid being financially enmeshed - except with the banks, of course. But there is another way - the way of interdependence.

Mental illness is not all my mother was. That was her shadow, not her substance or her self, in her own, others’ or God’s eyes.

On the centenary of John Stott’s birth, we remember not Stott the 'Evangelical Pope', but Stott the Evangelical ‘monk' who fulfilled the vows of poverty, chastity and peaceableness in a way that shaped and birthed institutional reform amongst Evangelicals world-wide.

Despite his personal religious convictions, Prime Minister Morrison is a secular liberal, with a strongly pragmatic theological stance as regards the public sphere. No atheist secular liberal need fear him.

More than ever, in this time of so much distrust and fear between different ideologies and groups, our culture needs to know surrender. It needs to know that healing comes through knowing we are loved regardless.

It’s easy for the people of God to fall into a spiritual slumber, failing in our role as a prophetic community. The departure of Donald Trump from office is an opportunity to re-evaluate our role in society and politics, and for repentance, conversion and renewal.