• Becoming a Good Tree

    Becoming a Good Tree0

    The Sermon on the Mount, from where we get our House on the Rock parable, is deeply concerned with virtue. We spoke to Marvin Oxenham about virtue education, about what it can mean today, and about how to become good trees.

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  • Learning to “Be” with the Roma

    Learning to “Be” with the Roma0

    We spoke to Nina Jankucić about how she ended up working with the Roma Networks, about the exciting things happening with this community, and about how with them she learns “being” and relationships: “And if there is no being and relationships, there is never going to be doing.”

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  • Blessed Lent and Easter!

    Blessed Lent and Easter!0

    Lent is the season of life. In the northern hemisphere where we live it is also the time of spring. After the long, dark and cold wintertime nature begins to revive: the grass starts to grow, the snowdrops disappear and make room for hyacinths and daffodils to bloom, the trees turn green again, birds build their nests, and the first ducklings are already swimming around in the ponds. Migratory birds are returning from warmer areas, the days are getting longer again, and temperatures are rising.

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  • Hearing through the Sermon

    Hearing through the Sermon0

    We spoke to Manuel Rainho, General Secretary of the Portuguese IFES movement, about the sermon, one of our main mediums of listening to Jesus’ words, and a focal point in our churches, communities and individual lives.

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  • Reading “these words of mine”

    Reading “these words of mine”0

    We spoke to Mike MacDonald at the Bible Project, about how to read “these words” – this mega book that is the Bible, how important context is and literary genre – we can’t read poetry the same way we read prophecy! And when Jesus says “hear these words of mine” he is not only talking about words on a page, but about a unified narrative that points to him.

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  • Listening to others

    Listening to others0

    We spoke to Usha Reifsnider, a Missions specialist, about listening to others: how difficult this is in general, and even how as Christians we are pretty rubbish at listening because we are the ones who want to be speaking. But we become better listeners when we have been listened to.

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