Dr Paul Allen

  Students across India are facing increasing religious discrimination and persecution in educational institutions.Young believers are organising peaceful movements to defend religious freedom and human dignity. The unrest reveals growing concerns about religious liberty in the world’s largest democracy While Western nations continue to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties with India, a troubling reality is unfolding within the country’s educational institutions. Students across India are speaking out against religious discrimination and persecution, raising serious concerns about the state of religious freedom in the nation. Young people, including Christian students, have been subjected to dehumanising treatment and discrimination based on their faith. What began as isolated incidents has grown into a larger movement as students band together to defend their God-given dignity and constitutional rights. The situation reflects a broader pattern of religious intolerance that has ...

Since I’ve spent the majority of my professional career as a teacher of Scripture, philosophy, and theology, I’ve often had the opportunity to think about matters of pedagogy and other issues related to instruction.  One thing that’s always struck me as I have considered what it means to be an effective teacher is that most of the great teachers in history were themselves students of other great instructors.  Socrates taught Plato; Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. The entire history of Western ideas has been affected by these four men. In theology, we see that Ambrose of Milan taught Augustine, and Augustine, through his writings, taught both Martin Luther and John Calvin. We owe a great debt to Ambrose, who by discipline Augustine got the ball rolling for the Reformation, in a manner of speaking. That great teachers produce other great teachers tells us that we can’t take the search for a teacher lightly. In fact, our choices of the instructor...