Resource theme: Faith in Action
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A Christian Case for Vegetarianism?
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Is there a Christian case to be made for vegetarianism? In this short article, I hope to answer this question in the affirmative! But first, it is important to make a few observations. For starters, the Bible does not prohibit eating meat. In the Bible, the eating of meat is sometimes prescribed and the New…
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Christian Eco-Theology: First Steps
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The global ecological crisis is first and foremost a spiritual crisis. We will not see the deep long-term transformations which are necessary unless we see spirituality as foundational. Spirituality is the essence of every expression of life- giving shape and significance to each relationship. It is expressed in love, justice, beauty, and all other life-giving…
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Faith in Action Stories: What can Christians offer to climate activism?
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A few years ago I attended an event at the Baptist Church where I was baptised in my teens. It was organised by Christians Against Climate Change, and they’d invited one of my heroes – a climate scientist, Prof John Houghton, who in the 1990s persuaded leaders of the evangelical right wing in America of…
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Faith in Action Stories: Hope for the Future
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Ten years ago I decided to take a gap year to volunteer with the Church in Peru. I wanted to experience more of the global church and see what God is doing around the world. I was away from all my friends and family and sometimes working in tough conditions, but I felt God’s love…
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Faith in Action Stories: Resisting the God of War
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As a practising Christian, I have been involved in one way or another for many years in challenging the arms industry and the arms trade. For the last 8 years or so my work has been focused on the growing use of armed drones. Like most people, I can remember very well where I was…
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Faith in Action Stories: A Sustainable Faith
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I must confess I was rather miffed recently when I heard that in the latest Anglican terminology, “discernment” has taken over from “vocation” as describing the process of determining whether or not someone has been called by God to ordination. The reason behind this I cannot fault – that everyone has a vocation, not just…
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Womanist Theology 101
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In the mid 1980’s, three African American scholars – Katie Cannon, Jacquelyn Grant, and Delores Williams – realised there was a need for a more inclusive theological and ethical framework concerning black liberation theology. Prior to the construction of a womanist ethic and reflection, there was no such construct in place to encourage black women to reclaim their identity, love their…
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Feminist Theology 101
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Feminist theology (or more properly, theologies) has emerged in modern times as a challenge to the male bias in religion and society as a whole. Although feminist theology has many significant roots in pre-modern history, it has only emerged as a fully conscious movement with its own literature, spokespersons, principles and methods in the past three or four decades. Influenced and…
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The Prayer of Oscar Romero
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It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying…