The Christian practice of fasting has fallen on hard times. Yet Christ and the saints commend it. Perhaps we’re more worldly than we realise.
Female Genital Cutting (FGC) has deep cultural significance in much of Africa. To engage meaningfully, we must first understand why it’s carried out.
When life gives us lemons, sometimes we just can’t make lemonade - bitterness overwhelms us. Yet as Naomi found in the book of Ruth, there is an antidote.
The key to a relationship with God is humility: recognising our own weakness. But to do this we must abandon our self-sufficiency. Easier said than done.
Isn’t it oddly eery how similar ‘ideal’ and ‘idol’ are? The existence of ideal nations should not draw our eyes away from God. Our heaven is not on earth.
