Daniel Jeyaraj
Prof. Dr. Daniel Jeyaraj is an accomplished church historian and currently serves as the Academic Dean at Oxford Center for Religion and Public Life.
Introduction To Lent And Its Significance
Lent is a period of forty days (from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday), in which the duration of daylight increases in the Northern Hemisphere. Christians use this period to ponder over the sufferings, sin-atoning...
Discovering love through Valentine's Day, the Bible, and Thirukkural, and understanding its importance in our lives. Want to learn more about this universal feeling?
In a world full of bad news, offering encouragement is really important. Encouragement helps us keep going, gives us the courage to face challenges, and leads us towards a better future and a kinder world. Learn more about how encouragement can change things for the better.
Christmas is a great festival, and it contains a popular and a technical meaning. Currently, its popular significance differs whether it is celebrated in the Global North or in the Global South. Risking the danger of broad generalizations, one...
The Latin word advent means arrival or moving toward something. Technically, it stands for the four weeks before Christmas. It is a time of preparation to celebrate the birthday of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Normally, Christians clean their homes, get...
The common statement that “God is truth” is deceptively simple, but it contains layers of relational meanings.
Indic languages present God as Truth-Grace-Beauty (satyam-civam-sundaram) or Truth-Wisdom=Bliss (Satcitānanda).
These affirmative statements are primarily otherworldly as synonyms for God as the Absolute, the...
The English transitive verb to forgive has Germanic origins; among other things, it means a victim, in their private and personal capacity and for the sake of happier, healthier, and more peaceful relationships, voluntarily gives up resentment or anger...
The overriding meaning of this English noun is negative: it implies either regret or contrition for vices in the past (e.g., sin, fraud, transgressions) or failures to do virtuous things.
Its verb form to repent comes from the Latin root...
Beginnings
Martin Luther (1483–1546) had no idea that his invitation for theological discussions on ninety-five themes in the newly established University of Wittenberg (1502) would result in reforming the church of his time.
Tradition holds that, according to the academic custom,...
Psalm 1:1–2: Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners nor sit in the seat of scoffers, but his delight in the law of the LORD...
