Samuel Thambusamy
Samuel Thambusamy is a PhD candidate with the Oxford Center for Religion and Public Life.
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....
Most reviews of SNW say that it feels “like the good old days of Star Trek but still fresh”. We love the crew, don’t we? They bring their humanity into space with them.
Most importantly, they care deeply for one...
SNW - S-1 E-1 Captain Pike Gets Recalled tells the story of a bad first-contact scenario.
USS Archer is sent to Kiley 279 after signs of a working warp engine are identified. First Officer Una and her team lose contact,...
“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.”
Star Trek - the...
This is a two-part article on Jesus’ use of money, wherein I focus on a few texts and attempt to correlate Jesus’ teachings on money with his use of money. In this second part, we will see how Jesus...
Gen 13: 1 - 12
So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. From the...
Jesus' teaching on money (possessions) is quite radical and challenging. However, we must read his teachings in their immediate social context/s instead of arriving at easy (or quick) conclusions.
Jesus’ teaching on money is strewn all through the four Gospels....
The Bible exhorts us to “be hospitable”. Interestingly, Tamil culture places a high premium on the concept of Virunthombal (Hospitality). Classical Tamil literary texts highlight the many noble aspects of hospitality and extoll its role in the life ethics...
