Tell Me about Hope
I had not expected to be told the world was ending. The advertisement pinned to the hessian noticeboard in the dorm common room alongside posters for...
I had not expected to be told the world was ending. The advertisement pinned to the hessian noticeboard in the dorm common room alongside posters for...
One of the marks of Christian celebration is an exuberant naming of why we rejoice. Celebration is a meaningful and just thing to do, even...
So often we miss it. Harried and distracted, dazed by the seasonal onslaught of tinsel and faux snow and forced cheer—Happy Holidays!—we stumble into Christmas...
The driver of the white convertible rests one arm casually on the steering wheel. He has long hair and is wearing bracelets. Next to him...
“Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.” (Job 12:7) My office window overlooks a green lawn, which runs for perhaps ten metres...
“Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image.’” (Gen 1:26) “Certain things,” writes philosopher Josef Pieper, “can be adequately discussed only if at...
This essay is an edited version of a talk Andrew Shamy delivered in Auckland on 14 October 2020. In 1997, the British public voted The Lord...
Andrew delivered this talk at an Alumni Weekend in 2015. The topic was Christian courage, and given the current global crisis he thought it worth...
This piece first appeared on the blog Imagining Otherwise, written by Venn Senior Teaching Fellow Andrew Shamy, and has been reposted here with permission. I’ve been...
Ask me for novel recommendations and it won’t be long before I suggest you read Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. What’s not to love: part murder...