Contemporary International Relations: Changing Dynamics, Challenges and Responses

Introduction The contemporary international relations (IR) are at an inflection point in their evolution. In the last few months, they came under immense pressure from a small virus, whose origins are fiercely contested, but its debilitating and destructive implications are felt across the globe. Lives are lost; global economy is crippled, adversely affecting farmers, laborers, …

Biblical Reflections at the Time of Covid -19

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time of unprecedented global uncertainty for all of humankind with government administrations, healthcare & other essential service providers and humanitarian agencies struggling to mitigate its adverse impact on lives and livelihoods. While there have been many lessons learnt over the last several decades in dealing with disasters like floods, …

Engaging Faith in a Digital Age

INTRODUCTION Christians, like other religious communities, have for long wrestled with changes in modes of communication and what that means to the expression of faith. To begin with Christians have felt that the sacredness of the word is tied to its form and later Christians pondered whether the word of God and the mission of …

Responses to our Socio-Political Context as Acts of Faith

INTRODUCTION The central focus of this article is on the practical aspects of a life of faith and not on faith as a belief system. It is about the faith that is required as we encounter life and its challenges each day. Barring a few exceptions, much of the church teaching encourages a spirituality, which …

Christian Mind Series (CMS)

The “Christian Mind Series” (CMS) is the TRACI venture, to promote Christian thinking and understanding.  Our Christian vocation today calls for a critical dialogue between the Word and the world.  Only then can we be a people of understanding. ln our media-dominated age, the world is too much with us. We derive most, if not …