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Dietrich Bonhoeffer claimed that the most urgent question for society boiled down to the question: 'who is my neighbour'?

'Will our eyes see this creator of majesty ride into the eye of the storm?' Dr Paul Mercer reflects on his experience of Cyclone Alfred.

'The current volatile geopolitical environment, coupled with the cost-of-living crisis, presents governments with an urgent challenge of strengthening social cohesion and fostering respect among people of diverse cultural, faith, and non-faith backgrounds.' Dr Audrey Statham questions if the proposed anti-protest laws are the solution.

The Bishop of Washington’s sermon on 21 January would not have been considered remarkable if it wasn’t for who was in the congregation that day. What she chose to do has opened up conversations about the gospel in surprising ways.

What to say? What to do? With climate change looming big and a new president who denies it and makes political capital out of the fires, blaming fire-fighters, it's easy to despair. But we can do little things that make a big difference.

In the clapping, the ecstatic smiles and hugs, the demonstrative childishness of ‘this is what victory feels like’, we're still confronted by what seems to be an outbreak of insanity that we are going to have to deal with. Do we stay quiet?

Christian nationalism substitutes spiritual salvation through Christ for political salvation through Trump, rendering Jesus’ ultimate triumph over evil through his death and resurrection insufficient. But is there a biblical premise for this view?

Jesus is the universal sovereign, announcing a Heavenly Kingdom to all, and proposing a path of discipleship for all. But this universal sovereign stooped down to pick up mud to smear on the eyes of a blind man.

People with disabilities often face significant barriers to fully participating in their communities, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, leading to exclusion from community and a deepening experience of poverty. The story of Dipak, a 26-year-old Nepalese man, is one of hope.

If our notion of humanism excludes the dimensions of beauty, imagination and spirituality then we are championing an anorexic humanism. So how can the Christian faith contribute to an understanding of and living into a true humanism?

The more I learned about how to maintain one’s character in Christ, Christian courtship and Christian marriage, the more I felt empowered as a Christian woman. I learned how to respect and value myself.

The controversy over Latin American theologian Ruth Padilla DeBorst's comments on the Israel-Palestine conflict at last month’s Lausanne IV Gathering highlighted the long-standing tensions within the Lausanne Movement and the need for courage to discuss the hard issues.

Last month's 50th anniversary gathering of the Australasian Religious Press Association (ARPA) was sadly its last. Veteran journalist and Ethos board member Graeme Cole traces the foundation, history and closure of this important organisation. Where to from here for Christian publishing?

'In this crucible of fire — both chemical and divine — we are transformed. The flames that threaten to consume us also forge us anew. We will burn, yes, but we will also grow. And in that growth, we will find our healing, our strength, our rebirth.' A reflection on the purifying fire of chemotherapy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.