Watched the army bands play Abide with Me at the Beating the Retreat ceremony! Amazing, soul-stirring music! I was reminded of Navina Jafa’s recent article (The Abiding Presence) where she discusses the “geometric setting” in which the hymn is played and its implications for us today. In her article, she writes, The final ritual in the […]
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Fear Not – Matthew 1: 20, Luke 2:10 Christmas is a season of celebration for the young and old everywhere. It is a time to remember the birth of Christ into our world but also into the lives of many Christians – those who accept him as Lord and Saviour. It is also a time
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The common statement that “God is truth” is deceptively simple, but it contains layers of relational meanings. Indic languages present God as Truth-Grace-Beauty (satyam-civam-sundaram) or Truth-Wisdom=Bliss (Satcitānanda). These affirmative statements are primarily otherworldly as synonyms for God as the Absolute, the Reality, and the like. There is no simple answer to how these epithets impact
Since the arrival of Rev. Dr Edward Winter Clark and his wife, Mary Mead, the Church has grown significantly among the Ao Nagas. However, not much is known about Godhula, the local Assamese evangelist/schoolteacher, who courageously made the first contact with the Ao Nagas. Back then, the British Colonial administrators viewed the indigenous communities of Nagaland
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The Identity of various Indian-Christian communities is drawn from an extensive repository of historical experience. Sadly, this is routinely forgotten. The collective failure to look at the native face of Indian Christianity is unfortunate. The Christian identity in South India during the 18th century was an ingenious mix of Pietism and Tamil culture. Prof. Jeyaraj
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Sadhu Sundar Singh is one of the well-known Indian Christians. His dramatic encounter with Jesus, intense devotion to Christ, mystical experiences and daring journeys across the snow-clad mountains to Tibet are memorialized in the collective consciousness of the Indian Church and beyond. Born into a Sikh family, Sundar Singh embraced Christianity and became an ardent disciple
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Mahatma Gandhi’s Christian Friends It is not entirely uncommon to hear: “Christians were angrez (foreigners), they were not part of the freedom struggle”. But, unfortunately, even a plain reading of history would reveal the participation of Indian-Christians in the struggle for Swaraj ( Self Rule). In many ways, the Mahatma’s story is inextricably woven with the story of
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