Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from August 2019

Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from Julu 2019

Words are used to define, but are also instruments of love, healing and peace, writes Marilyn McEntyre. Yet like any other life-sustaining resource, words can be depleted, polluted, contaminated, eroded and filled with artificial stimulants. How can we guard against the abuse of language?

Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from June 2019

Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from May 2019

How do we answer the question: ‘Why do we suffer?’ Is there even a correct question? And does the answer change if we have terminal cancer? God doesn’t want us to suffer, but suffering allows him to work out his good plan in our lives.

What if the Book of Romans, rather than a timeless systematic theology, is really a pastoral letter to those living at the heart of the Roman Empire that seeks to disarm the violence of that first-century power?

How does the Qur’an relate to the Bible? Is there any real substance in the similarities between the two? Mark Durie argues that, though the Qur’an was clearly influenced by Judaism and Christianity, it embodies a new, distinctive theology.