Open Book: How Jesus enters the pain of the oppressed

NILS VON KALM looks at a passage in Mark’s Gospel in which Jesus encounters a man possessed by an “impure spirit”…
Open Book: Jonah is a prophet for today

US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza…
Open Book: Looking again at the Parable of the Pounds

NILS VON KALM puts forward the arguments for a different approach to the Parable of the Pounds found in Luke 19…
Open Book: What do you see?

NILS VON KALM says the Gospel account of Jesus’ interaction with a man born blind – often known as “the healing of the man born blind” – is ultimately about how we see Jesus…
Open Book: I, Peter – How the Gospel heals your shame

NILS VON KALM reflects on the Gospel story of Peter…
Open Book: A healing of holistic proportions

NILS VON KALM looks at the Gospel account of Jesus’ meeting with a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for 12 years…
Open Book: The prisoner’s letter – bearing the message

BRUCE C WEARNE looks at the closing verses of Ephesians…
Open Book: The prisoner’s letter – gird up!

BRUCE C WEARNE continues his examination of Ephesians chapter six with a look at a famous passage on spiritual warfare…
Open Book: The prisoner’s letter – a “culiminating anthem”, part II

BRUCE C WEARNE, in the second part of a two part article, continues his examination of a sometimes controversial passage in Ephesians about husbands and wives…
Open Book: The prisoner’s letter – a “culiminating anthem”, part I

BRUCE C WEARNE, in the first part of a two part article, looks at a sometimes controversial passage in Ephesians about husbands and wives…