Writings

This is the last clause of the Apostle’s Creed. It does not say the “resurrection of the soul”. The Hebrew nephesh, sometimes translated as “soul”, means also “life in the body”, “our absolute identity”, “who we really are”, and “the ground of our being.” It is the eternal mark of our identity. Resurrection is about […]

Peter Millar has the story of a parishioner who was asked by her vicar if she believed in a God who held heaven and earth, who healed, transformed, liberated and renewed creation. She paused for a moment and then replied, “No, I don’t. I believe in the ordinary God.”[10] God is immersed in the “ordinary” […]

Samuel Beckett wrote a haunting little play called Waiting for Godot. Godot never comes. Vladimir and Estragon are the speakers in the closing scene.  Valdimir: We’ll hang ourselves tomorrow. (Pause.) Unless Godot comes. Estragon: And if he comes? Vladimir: We’ll be saved. Then, after further conversation while they are still waiting,  Vladimir says: Well? Shall […]

Jesus is sentenced to death by the Roman overlords. He is led away to a hill called Golgotha, “the place of a skull.” It is aptly named, for here history’s most famous and most-remembered death will occur. The attempt to silence one more independent voice in the human centuries has begun.  The death of Jesus […]

The angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the most high will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God”- Luke 1:35  This is the nearest that we get to a description of the virginal conception of […]

This ‘article’ in the Creed has both names and titles. Names carry personal identity and titles carry recognition and spheres of influence. The personal name is that of Jesus, and it is the key to unlocking the other names and titles, even that of “God”, for us. It is clear that the God of the […]