Krish Kandiah's Blog

Such a privilege to spend time with David Grant the 80s pop legend, singer, vocal coach, campaigner but most importantly the adopted dad. Here’s a little interview we recorded together in London during the heatwave.

A talk given at St Paul’s Cathedral in 2018 on why facing the difficult challenges and paradoxes of Christianity is essential to genuine faith.

Discover how to keep going in caring for the vulnerable. This talk was given at the Home for Good national summit.

A short film made in the Bekah valley in Lebanon explaining why the UK should receive more unaccompanied assylum seeking children.

At the prestigious Q ideas conference in Nashville Krish challenged the audience to a radically different approach to justice ministry, discipleship and worship.

Krish spoke to a packed out New Theatre in Oxford for the annual TEDxOxford event. His theme was hospitality and he gives an inspirational and thought provoking presentation on the way that hospitality can change our lives and those that we welcome.

It was a real privilege to speak with Tim Farron about the need for greater faith literacy and how my latest book Faitheism can help.

Tim explained:

‘We live in a time that is religiously illiterate, because people haven’t been churched, people haven’t grown up in a religious family setting, anywhere near as much as they did a couple of generations ago.’ However, he said Christians needed to learn how to engage with unchurched people better and avoid forming ‘harsh or inaccurate views’. 

Krish’s latest book “God is Stranger” challenges the way we understand God and what it means to have intimacy with him. Multi-award winning journalist and author Andy Crouch speaks to Krish Kandiah about  his book. You can purchase God is Stranger from Eden.co.uk and all good bookstores. The book is published in the US with IVP.

Commendations for the book include:

“My friend Krish Kandiah’s new book is not only needed ‘for such a time as this,’ it’s one that will help reshape some of our thoughts and feelings toward others and allow us to see strangers more with the eyes of God. Many thanks to Krish for this encouraging book!”

“For many years, Christians have felt at home in the world. The result of that way of life was the presumption that we knew what we meant when we said ‘God.’ Drawing on often-ignored passages in the Bible, Kandiah helps us recover how odd the God we worship as Christians turns out to be. It seems God shows up even as a Jewish peasant. Such a God can scare the hell out of us, but I guess that’s the point. So read this book as a challenge to our domesticated imaginations.”

biblical and contextual

I recently discovered something astonishing about the last seven statements Jesus made before he died, which gives me a new perspective on this coming Good Friday. They are intrinsically linked to one another because all of them relate to the practice of hospitality. For someone facing imminent death it might seem like a strange choice of theme, but it is exactly what makes this particular death so significant.

In Jesus’s first statement from the Cross, “Father, forgive”, he uses some of his last breaths to plead for God’s grace to be shown to all who have conspired to kill him: strangers and enemies, Jews and Romans, soldiers hammering nails through his wrists and onlookers mocking and insulting him. Jesus asks his Father to welcome in hospitality even those who are murdering him. 

Read the rest of this article on The Times website here.