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Kamikaze Christianity
In my early high school years, a friend travelled to the United States for a sporting event. He returned with many wonderful tales of the Land of Liberty, among which was reports of a product called Crystal Pepsi. At the time, PepsiCo had pulled its products from the...
Threatened by Tribalism
On Maundy Thursday in 1994, Rwandan Christians gathered in church buildings to worship God. Together, they sang songs of praise, prayed as one, listened to the word preached, and communed around the Lord’s Table. They worshipped in the true spirit of the day. The word...
Olympic outrage
This past Friday night, the world witnessed another elaborate opening ceremony of a major sporting event. Third-time Olympic host city, Paris, went out of its way to create an extravagant and, at times, perplexing display, which had little to do with sport. It has...
More precious than gold
The 2024 Olympic Games will be held from 24 July to 11 August in Paris, France. Paris’s third turn hosting the Games marks a few significant milestones. First, this year’s Games have been heralded as a landmark in Olympic history for female athletes. Women first...
The way of the cross
In November 2023, Business Insider reported that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was officially “the biggest movie franchise in history, having earned more than $29 billion worldwide.” That is a mind-blowing amount of money. Why are the Marvel films so popular?...
Does the Bible Support Capital Punishment?
A number of years ago, I heard American conservative political commentator Matt Walsh describe how he had changed his mind on support for the death penalty. Given Walsh’s Catholic faith, this did not particularly surprise me, but over the years I was surprised to see...