Month: April 2023

Good Friday! How could it possibly be called Good Friday? The day on which your leader and hero was brutally executed? Jesus was flogged, ordered to carry the cross on which he would be crucified and then put to death. At first sight it is difficult to see what is ‘good’ about it. It certainly...

In 1 Corinthians 1:18, Paul says that in the eyes of ‘those who are perishing’ the ‘word of the cross’ is ‘folly’. This denotes, not merely a lack of wisdom. The early Christian writer, Justin, explains that the upset, caused by the Christian message in the ancient world, is really madness.   “They say that...