by Michael Shaw | Oct 3, 2019 | Opinion
Where have all the prophets gone? That question has been on my mind after someone recently brought a quote to my attention in the context of climate change: “The prophetic counter to denial rooted in the ideology of exceptionalism is the practice of grief that...
by Michael Shaw | Aug 24, 2018 | Opinion
I recently watched a BBC Panorama documentary on the impact of poverty on life expectancy called “Get Rich or Die Young.” The program reported from Teeside, United Kingdom, which has the country’s worst health inequality: The life expectancy difference between...
by Michael Shaw | Jun 9, 2016 | Opinion
Modern worship songs are often an easy target for critique. Particularly those that make Jesus into your best friend, those that make no theological sense, those that could be sung by people of any faith, and those that are great songs but are not congregational. Yet,...
by Michael Shaw | Feb 15, 2016 | Opinion
I arrived at university 25 years ago as a young, fresh, undergraduate who thought the best way to witness to Jesus was to make him cool by being cool myself. I am not sure how I thought this tactic would work, as I was (and still am) a cricket-loving folkie, with a...
by Michael Shaw | Jun 9, 2015 | Opinion
I have recently started re-reading Leviticus. You enter into a strange world, an alien culture of sacrifice. ¨It is hard not only getting your head around the ritual, but also trying to understand how any of this could be relevant to anyone in our culture. After...
