“Membuat Langit Tersenyum”, menggambarkan tentang adanya sukacita di sorga. Di belakang ungkapan Yesus ini tergambar dengan jelas bahwa penghuni langit (syamayim) yang juga diartikan sebagai surga selalu mengamati hal-hal yang berlangsung di bumi. Apa yang terjadi di bumi mempengaruhi suasana di surga di hadapan takhta Allah. Kalau di bumi terjadi kejahatan dan berbagai bentuk pemberontakan…
Here is a superb example of the new way of doing theology. C.S. Song tells a charming story of long ago and then proceeds to draw some not-so-charming implications for what it means in our time. The "safe" tale turns out to have devastating impact on what we thought was our own secure world. Scripture, tears, prophetic insight, social analysis, politics, hope -- all of them are incorporated in …
Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Tóibín found himself traveling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to Ireland. And in seeing how the faith persisted in other people’s lives, he discovered how …
Demokratisasi muslim Indonesia tidak eksklusif. Sejak awal fleksibel terhadap hal-hal berbeda yang datangnya dari luar Islam. Di kalangan masyarakat Barat, sudah lama tertanam keyakinan bahwa demokratisasi tak bakal ada di dunia Islam. Ketidakpercayaan ini makin terlihat setelah berakhirnya Perang Dingin, sehingga Barat tak lagi punya pesaing, dan karena itu sedang memperhitungkan pesaing baru.…
The Qur’an contains 100 verses that tell us about Jesus. They give an account of the annunciation by the angel to Mary, the virgin birth, with much more emphasis on the miraculous than the Christian Gospels. They tell about the youth of Jesus, and show him talking in the cradle, but they reflect also his healing and preaching mission with the support of his apostles, against the opposition of…