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Samuel Thambusamy

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Samuel Thambusamy is a PhD candidate with the Oxford Center for Religion and Public Life.
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...

Give me R.E.D

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...
1 Samuel 18: 6 - 9 When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul by singing and dancing, with joyful songs and...
For God alone my soul waits in silence from him comes my salvation (Ps. 62:1) We live in a world of noise, and it is almost impossible to break from the normalcy of noise. Our minds are loud and busy....