Christian Daily

Opinion

• School education in China: choices among Christian families

  Asia

  13 mins read

  Christian school education has a long history in China, going back at least to Robert Morrison’s Anglo-Chinese College in Malacca in 1818. In fact, thirteen of the country’s premier universities were once Christian. That all changed after the current government took power in 1949.

• Damaging detachment (by Jay Matenga)

  Oceania

  8 mins read

  Galatians is widely accepted as Paul’s first epistle. It emerged in response to a radical disruption of the Jewish faith following the resurrection of Jesus. Almost 2,000 years on, we can too easily gloss over the shocking nature of this shift, which became a schism, and then an entirely independent religion with unbroken spiritual roots in the history of Israel and Judaism.

• Searching for truth (by Jeff Fountain)

  Europe

  4 mins read

  The stubborn myth that science and faith are diametrically opposed gets knocked about in the current exhibition on ‘the creation of science’ in the Catherijne Convent Museum I visited in Utrecht this week. Early scientific instruments, first editions of breakthough publications and arresting art illustrate the essential midwife role of the Christian faith in the evolution of modern science over the past five hundred years.