Into the Depths

Credo 5 September 2022 “Soundings” is 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. The coronavirus pandemic has presented immense challenges to people all...

Get Out!

Credo 15 August 2022 “Come out of her, my people” (Revelation 18:4) Revelation 18 opens with an angel speaking authoritatively. A declaration is made concerning the destruction of Babylon (a cipher for Rome), as due punishment for her sins. But in verse 4, the angel...

Educating the Next Generation

Credo 1 August 2022 “Soundings” is 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.   One of the most important duties that the present generation must...

Leibniz on the Best of all Possible Worlds

Reading Voltaire’s satire Candide as an impressionable young man led me to think lowly of Gottfried Leibniz as a philosopher. In this satire, Voltaire mercilessly ridiculed Leibniz’s philosophy of optimism embodied by Pangloss, the mentor of the protagonist of the...

We Need No Permission to Dance

20 June 2022 Credo “Permission to Dance” (PTD) is a song by the South Korean boyband and global sensation, Bangtan Boys, otherwise known as BTS. Released in July 2021, the song held the number one spot for seven consecutive weeks on US Billboard’s Hot 100....