Samuel Thambusamy
Samuel Thambusamy is a PhD candidate with the Oxford Center for Religion and Public Life.
God,You have given us new Life.An Identity.A sense of Belonging.You have adopted us into your family.
And yet,We don’t come together as often as we should.We are indifferent.We are inconsiderate.We hold back.We avoid.We neglect to meet together.
And even if we...
The Philippians’ support for Paul’s work was a counter-trend. The Church had the grace to know the value of Paul’s work and eagerly supported him.
For you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the...
It is a privilege to be in a loving relationship with God - the Maharaja of the Universe. How easy it is to say, ‘I love you, Lord’. More often than not, we don’t understand the full import of...
Ice-Age, Stone-age, the Machine age, clone-age, Information-Age, Digital age and now we are in Garb-age.
It is so easy to get filled with gloom and doom, fake news, hate, or just any garbage. We have often failed to recognise the...
Thomas, M.M. Salvation and Humanisation: Some Crucial Issues of the Theology of Mission in Contemporary India. Madras: The CLS, 1971: 60pp.
We live in the context of dehumanisation. How does the Church address the issue of dehumanisation? More often than...
Read 1 Samuel 3: 1–20
Conversations
1) What is this passage about?
2) Who are the characters mentioned in the passage? What do we know about them?
3) Hannah, Samuel’s mother, was devout (I Samuel 1:10-11, 15-16;) and had a depth of spiritual...
Sadhu Sundar Singh is one of the well-known Indian Christians. His dramatic encounter with Jesus, intense devotion to Christ, mystical experiences and daring journeys across the snow-clad mountains to Tibet are memorialized in the collective consciousness of the Indian Church...
Mahatma Gandhi's Christian Friends
It is not entirely uncommon to hear: "Christians were angrez (foreigners), they were not part of the freedom struggle". But, unfortunately, even a plain reading of history would reveal the participation of Indian-Christians in the struggle...
The everyday experience of Indian-Christians is that of a wholesome identity that is at once Indian and Christian. The history of the indigenisation of Indian Christian identity is largely unknown to most of us.
India became free and independent on...
Read 1 Kings 21: 1 – 19 ( Watch the Story)
Questions for Conversations
What is this passage about?Imaginatively present this story as a Media News story (Ask the group to prepare a presentation)Why did Ahab want Naboth’s vineyard? Why would...
