Contemporary Western society is post-Christian. "Christendom" - the time when Christian morality was accepted as good, and calling yourself "Christian" was equivalent to being an upright member of society - is well and truly in the past. Many books and articles...
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Religious freedom is in the media spotlight again. Someone has filed a complaint with the Tasmanian anti-discrimination commissioner against Presbyterian Church minister Campbell Markham for publicly upholding the traditional, "orthodox" view of human sexuality and...
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To live a Christian life today, we need to have a deep understanding of the dynamics that underlie both the Bible, and contemporary Western society. We need to be simultaneously deeply "theological" and "sociological". Only then will we truly understand how, and why,...
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This is going to be an interesting Easter season. In a previous era, under sociological conditions of “Christendom”, Christianity was sufficiently woven into the fabric of Australian society that even non-Christians accurately knew what the Bible claimed about God,...
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Assurance was one of the war-cries of the Protestant Reformation. Because we are justified by faith alone, by Christ alone, then assurance is the birthright of every Christian. But, we need to be careful about how we understand assurance, within the broader matrix of...
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A properly Biblical doctrine of predestination - one that properly interacts with God's nature and the nature of human being in God's image - is not only compatible with evangelism and a call to conversion, but requires and motivates both. Reformed theology holds that...
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Kamal is a minister of the Presbyterian Church. He’s studying a PhD in inter-cultural ministry while ministering part-time at Epping Presbyterian Church and Macquarie Christian Union (AFES). He also serves as Thinking of God’s Director of Pastoral Initiatives.