India
Falling into prayer: Bede Griffith's pilgrimage and mine
What is it about Western culture that makes it so difficult to taste God? Why would we rather prove propositions than experience the holy?
by Paula Huston
India’s original Christians
For over a thousand years, Christian communities flourished in India. Their first real identity crisis? The arrival of European Catholics.
Global engagement
The Vietnam War forced Protestant ethicists to consider Catholic teachings about war, and I learned much from Catholic colleagues. My outlook was also changed by ecumenical contacts of another kind.
Faithful Dalits: Christians and caste
Eighty percent of the Lutherans in India are women, and 80 percent are Dalits--the caste at the lowest rung of the social ladder.
Intolerance in India
Religious freedom has
become a potent rallying cry. That is an excellent development—provided
we avoid turning the issue into a partisan weapon in the confrontation
between Christianity and Islam.