Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60038 The claim that Christianity causes trauma has become increasingly common in contemporary culture. Individuals describe their experiences of growing up in Christian homes or churches as psychologically damaging — characterised by shame, fear, repression, guilt, and the suppression of their authentic selves. The “religious trauma” category has gained traction in therapeutic settings and…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60034 The concept of “systemic racism” has become one of the most prominent and contested ideas in contemporary Western culture. It is the claim that racism is not primarily a matter of individual prejudice but is embedded in the structures, institutions, laws, and systems of society — operating independently of the intentions of the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60035 The term “social gospel” has a long history in Christian thought, originating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a movement that sought to apply Christian ethics to social problems — poverty, inequality, labour exploitation, and public health. In its contemporary form, it manifests as a Christianity that prioritises social justice,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60030 Racism is one of the most persistent and painful realities of human history. From ancient tribal hostilities to the transatlantic slave trade, from apartheid to ongoing ethnic tensions across the globe, the hatred of one group by another on the basis of ethnicity or skin colour has caused immeasurable suffering. The question for…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11022 The Great Commission was given two thousand years ago, yet there remain entire people groups on earth who have never had meaningful access to the gospel. The existence of unreached peoples is not a peripheral missiological statistic. It is a theological and moral reality that should press upon the conscience of every church…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60064 Reports of miraculous events associated with the Roman Catholic Church have circulated for centuries: weeping statues, Eucharistic miracles where communion wafers are said to turn into human tissue, incorrupt bodies of saints, apparitions of the Virgin Mary, and unexplained healings at sites like Lourdes. For many Catholics, these phenomena confirm their church’s unique…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60061 This is a question that deserves to be answered with honesty rather than defensiveness. The record of institutional abuse within churches, from the Roman Catholic scandals involving thousands of clergy, to cases within Protestant denominations, independent churches, and parachurch organisations, is genuinely appalling. Victims have been betrayed by the very people who were…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60053 Dan Brown’s 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code became a global phenomenon, selling tens of millions of copies and generating a major film adaptation. Its influence extended far beyond entertainment, because Brown presented his fictional narrative as resting on historical fact, and millions of readers took the claims seriously. The book alleges that…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60047 The question of whether a person can be both pro-choice and a faithful Christian arises with increasing frequency, particularly in cultures where reproductive rights have become a defining political issue. It is a question that deserves a direct and honest answer, because it touches on matters of life, death, and the character of…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60052 String theory is one of the most ambitious attempts in modern physics to construct a unified description of the fundamental forces of the universe. It proposes that the most basic constituents of reality are not point-like particles but tiny, vibrating strings of energy whose different modes of vibration produce the different particles observed…