Samuel Thambusamy
Samuel Thambusamy is a PhD candidate with the Oxford Center for Religion and Public Life.
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...
Bible reading must prepare our congregations for their own radical change. Churches in the Global South are called to explore new themes that speak to the realities of their congregations.
Like elsewhere, Housing is one of the defining economic issues...
God brought every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens to Adam to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name ( Genesis 2:19).
We are made in...
In the movie, the Passion of the Christ, Jesus’ suffering and death evokes a sense of sadness. Jesus was a good man who suffered death unjustly. As the story unfolds you wonder, ‘Why did God forsake Jesus?’
The question: ‘Where...
"When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives." (Mt. 26:29 – 31 and Mk 14: 26).
The Gospel writers – Mathew and Mark – mention Jesus singing a hymn (Mt. 26:29 – 31 and...
