The Beautiful Glory in the Beautiful Game
How the greatest sporting event gave us one of the greatest matches of all time and the beautiful game pointed to something more beautiful than itself.
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How the greatest sporting event gave us one of the greatest matches of all time and the beautiful game pointed to something more beautiful than itself.
The dream of a new India is emerging out of the old. This is now quite obvious to the citizens of this ancient nation and to much of the world outside. But new India is like a kaleidoscope of many new trends and developments—a young population that is building a vibrant nation, a powerful economic resurgence, and its new stature as an emerging global power. All these are coming together in different ways to shape a glorious dream. As Christians, we too must gaze into this kaleidoscopic dream of new India, work towards it and eventually enjoy its fruits. But...
“War is hell. You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,” American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman once wrote. There is an undeniable hellishness in the experience of war. The gruesome images of the war from Ukraine, the wail of human suffering and the pain of wanton destruction of life have all made the deep sinfulness of man viscerally real. The Christian is called to act against such injustice and violence. But how can all of us in India respond to this? One thing God calls us to do...
