The Ascension of Jesus Christ

Credo 7 July 2025 It is sometimes complained that the ascension of Christ receives scant attention in our theological thinking or Sunday sermons. It seems our focus on the cross and resurrection has driven out the ascension from our ken. And yet, the ascension is...

Seeing the disabled in God’s image

Credo 7 July 2025 In the past few decades, a number of churches across the different denominations have issued official statements calling their congregations to be places of inclusion and belonging, especially for people with disabilities. For example, the...

Dualistic-Holistic Humanity in the Bible

16 June 2025 Credo The historical view of Christianity on the nature of human beings is one of anthropological dualism, that is, the view that each human being has a soul and a physical body. This view was held by major Christian thinkers like Augustine and Aquinas,...

Sanctity and Justice

Credo 2 June 2025 Since 2009 the United Nations has designated 20 February as World Day of Social Justice. The purpose of this observance is to “commemorate and urge all efforts to combat unemployment, social exclusion, and poverty”.[1] For many years now,...

Reclaiming Christian Freedom

Credo 19 May 2025 Introduction In 2022, exvangelical[1] pastor Brandon Flanery published the findings of a survey he conducted with 1050 Christians who had left the faith.[2] When asked “What does your current existential framework offer you that your previous one did...

Saints in the marketplace

Credo 5 May 2025 In the past few decades, there has been an avalanche of excellent books on marketplace ministry such as Every Good Endeavour: Connecting Your Work to God’s Plan for the World (2012) by the late Timothy J. Keller,[1] and The Kingdom of God in...