Samuel Thambusamy
Samuel Thambusamy is a PhD candidate with the Oxford Center for Religion and Public Life.
The best way to experience lasting, meaningful connections is through Christian friendships. We risk missing out on God’s best for our lives if we hold back. Read on…
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...
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...
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....
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...
