The Sacrament of the Ordinary

Credo 6 March 2023 Some Christians are prone to think that the Christian life is a series of spiritual “mountaintop” experiences. The Christian life must be radical and exciting, filled with inspiring supernatural encounters with God at every turn. These believers...

Church Discipline: A Loss of Nerve

Credo 20 February 2023 Why are modern churches so reticent when it comes to church discipline? The problem is across the board, affecting both Catholic and Protestant churches. The dithering among the bishops of the Catholic Church in the USA on whether Joe Biden...

Just a Hallucination?

Credo 6 February 2023 In the fifteenth chapter of Paul’s first letter to the Christians at Corinth, we find the earliest and most extensive discussion on the resurrection in the New Testament. The integrity of the Christian faith, the apostle insists, hinges on the...

Lessons from the Pandemic

Pulse 16 January 2022 For much of the last three years (2020–2022), the world has been roiled by the sudden appearance of the COVID-19 virus. Work was disrupted, relationships impacted, and lives changed. It would take us years before the social, economic, medical and...

The Jesus Prayer

Credo 2 January 2023 This article was first published on “Soundings” — a series of essays that, like the waves of a sonogram, explore issues in society, culture and the church in light of the Gospel and Christian understanding. Lent is an important season...

Of Beasts and Horns

Credo 19 December 2022 A world still reeling from an unrelenting pandemic watched aghast as war broke out in Ukraine late February this year. Sadly, Eastern Europe is not the only place seeing armed conflict today. Strife and skirmishes are going on in more than forty...