It is no secret that the “prosperity gospel” is on a steady decline in the west and on the rise in the majority world at the same time. This ironic twist has produced the greatest threat to the vitality and witness of Christianity in the global South. The prosperity gospel/teaching/doctrine…

What would it look like for the church to undergo a purge similar to what is taking place on a larger scale in the political system in Sri Lanka? It would be presumptuous to think that the Sri Lankan church does not mirror similar systemic problems within its own ecclesial…

Lines are being drawn in the sand on the right response to one’s enlightenment to social injustice and evil that was once obscure either due to ignorance or indifference. It is not only enough to be “woke,” you must now decide how you configure your life thereon in the wake…

Jeremiah 2:13 (NIV) 13 “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. (NIV) 23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? …

Through a windowless portal I stare. Life has become grim and uninteresting. Nothing inspires, nothing is required, my brain has become mush. Routines give some form of meaning to life. That I wake up, go to work, go to church, go to places, go to the end of myself daily…

James K. Smith, a prominent Philosophical Theologian, in a recent self-reflective article states the following: “The pathology that besets us in this cultural moment is a failure of imagination, specifically the failure to imagine the other as neighbor. Empathy is ultimately a feat of the imagination, and arguments are no…

“Fools rush in!” they say. But are we not fools to a world that thinks it can hit pause, repose, depose, and reset at will? This is foolish too, the worldly spiel that my life is an autonomous wheel is as misguided as the American dream. Death does not discriminate, Disease does not procrastinate. Creation groans for a cosmic turn, The Christian hopes for a better world! Christ was born, Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again. This is the Gospel, the reversal of the Fall, Jesus Christ will be all in all.

In a recent press conference, His Eminence Ranjith Malcolm, the Cardinal for the Catholic church in Sri Lanka, read out a striking memorandum written by the same. His suspicion and renouncement of the so-called “pastors,” who deceive the desperate and rob the poor was the subject matter. In his sharp…

“How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown ups?” said Edward Abbey once. Controversies are interesting indeed and grown-ups who routinely avoid them certainly prefer a life of pleasantries over one of conviction. But controversies do not always remain in the realm of intellectual interest, they sometimes seep…