We published around two hundred articles in 2024. Below are my personal highlights in case you missed them.
Christian Life and Experience
“Musings on Spiritual Adoption from an Adoptive Mum”: Katie Davis’ touching personal story spans two decades, with a clear spiritual analogue.
Very occasionally we accept submissions from outside Australia. Ashley Beeman’s article, “Assurance, Obsessions, Compulsions: The Little-Known Subset of OCD that Attacks Your Faith”, was so good and important we were pleased to be able to publish it.
Bible and Theology
Former TGCA Editorial Director Andrew Moody continues to stretch us with his Trinitarian expertise in “On Christ’s Two Wills: Responding to William Lane Craig”.
In “Singing the Truth Within” Philip Percival argues that there is a sense in which Christians sing a truth that lies deep in our hearts—but this is a sense quite different from much modern pop music.
Arts and Culture
Frustratingly, Christian film reviews seem to be often little more than “Secular film disagrees with Christian worldview and ethics”. In her review of Inside Out 2, Heidi Tai gives a sensitive reading of the film on its own terms and draws connections to Christian experience.
“I find myself oddly well placed to talk about this. Two years ago, I completed my doctorate at Cambridge University. My thesis? A contrast between the Gospel of John and the portrayal of Dionysus’s opponents in Euripides’ tragedy, The Bacchae”. So wrote Tom Habib, shortly after the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony in “A Short History of Linking Jesus and Dionysus”.
Evangelism and Apologetics
“The Temple and Islamic Theology”: Samuel Green shows us what is lacking in Islamic theology, formulated as it was with reference to Rabbinic Judaism rather than the practices and theology of Second Temple Judaism.
Amy Isham tells an intriguing story of the “Humans of the Estuary: A Different Path to Sharing the Gospel”. She and her husband are involved in running a discussion group in inner-city Melbourne which has led to a range of gospel opportunities.
Ministry and Leadership
We can overthink ministry, making things more difficult than they need to be. Meredith van der Klip offers some sensible liberating minimalism in her “The Zero Preparation Bible Study Group”.
In our Father’s providence, several youth ministers across the country pitched series of articles at the same time. We collected these together here: “Raising the Bar on Youth Ministry”.
