Faith
Why we stopped, and why we are back
Eighteen issues, a new baby, a format that stopped working, and a website taken from us. What happened to 5Talents in 2014 — and what returns in January.
Point of view
Work & money
A sewing machine in somebody's front room does more than a cheque does
Charity relieves a hardship for a week. Ability changes what a family can do for the next twenty years. That is the argument, and Indian churches are sitting on the resources to act on it.
Culture
Twenty-four thousand cases in one year, and two words we use to make that bearable
The outrage lasts about a fortnight. Then the protests thin out, the panel discussions move on, and the country goes back to chalta hai until the next one is brutal enough to interrupt us.
Wellbeing
Elijah asked God to take his life. God let him sleep, and then fed him twice
There is no lecture in that passage. No list of reasons he should keep going, no reminder of who was depending on him. An angel touched him and said the journey was too much for him, which it was.
Wellbeing
Accelerator, brake, clutch. Every driving instructor in Hyderabad teaches the same three things
The illustration works. The trouble is what we usually do with it, which is to tell people to press the brake harder and then act surprised when they cannot.
Faith
The same day they fed five thousand people, they were terrified in a boat
Twelve men watched bread multiply in their own hands at lunchtime. By three in the morning they were rowing into a headwind and frightened out of their wits. Mark tells you exactly why.
Faith
We say freedom on the fifteenth of August and mostly mean permission
Flags, the anthem, the telecast from the Red Fort. Then a year in which a girl was surrounded outside a bar in Guwahati and an infant died in Punjab over two hundred rupees.
Faith
We named this magazine after a parable where the master hands out the money before anyone has earned it
Somebody has told you that you are good for nothing. Matthew 25 does not open with what the servants produced. It opens with what they were handed.