Only leave your house when necessary. Keep two metres apart. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Cough into your arm. Don’t gather in large groups. Respiratory droplets. Community transmission. Flattening the curve. Asymptomatic. Pre-symptomatic. N-95 masks. Ventilators. Insert your own term here. It seems that just about everywhere we turn (or click!), we are…

Note: The following article was written by the Rev. Warren Peel and published on Gentle Reformation under the title “Christians and Coronavirus” (28 FEB 2020).  Rev. Peel serves as minister of Trinity Reformed Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland, as well as professor of Biblical Greek and New Testament Studies at the Reformed Theological College in Belfast.…

“Beware the barenness of a busy life,” warned Socrates.  The words of the ancient Greek philosopher ring just as true in our own generation as they did in his.  Facebook status updates.  Instagram photo uploads.  Netflix series marathons.  The list goes on.  It seems that just about every few weeks, the results of a new…

In the last post, we considered the rich imagery found in Psalm 46 — imagery that poetically and persuasively calls the people of God to take shelter in the shadow of the Almighty when the storms of life rage hard.  We saw that it was Psalm 46, in all its poetic and persuasive beauty, that…

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. Do those words mean anything to you? Perhaps their translation into English might help: A Mighty Fortress is our God. Starting to ring a bell? Roughly ten years after nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg (1517), the famous German reformer, Martin Luther,…

Many Christians are deeply familiar with Jesus’ seven “I AM” statements found in John’s Gospel: “I AM the bread of life” (6:48); “I AM the light of the world” (8:12); “I AM the door of the sheep” (10:7); “I AM the good shepherd” (10:11, 14); “I AM the resurrection and the life” (11:25); “I AM…

Growing up, one of my favourite days of the school year was ‘Job Shadow Day’. It was a chance to step out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary by spending the entire day with a working adult, knowing that someday we, too, would be in those shoes. Have you ever realized that our weekly…