EXPLORING THE BIBLE

Thinking of the Apostle Paul, I find I regard him in similar terms as Sir Winston Churchill’s description of Russia:  “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”. On the one hand, Paul provides us with such wonderfully insightful statements as his hymn to love in...

There is no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”

Pentecost teaches us that being extravagantly God-intoxicated leads us to the awareness that all humanity is (to use Martin Luther King’s phrase) one “Beloved Community”.

Greater unity among Christians won’t be a magic bullet, it’s a good first step, however.

Jesus grants peace to those who follow him

he instructs his disciples to be as ‘little children’ to love one another