For the third Sunday in Lent, Canon Janet Trisk reflects on the challenge posed to both “hardline atheists” and “dead certain Christians” by the image of a God who is crucified.
Listen to it all (about 3 1/3 minutes). For more from Janet Trisk you can read her reflections here and there. According to the Diocesan website, she current serves as rector of Saint Alphege’s, Pietermaritzburg, whose website is there and whose Facebook page is here.
I’m surprised no one has commented on this. She certainly raises some valid philosophical points to ponder. Yet for those who have seen His works it is hard to repent of certainty. To paraphrase Acts: the Pharises asked him, “do you believe in the works of these men and in Jesus whom they proclaim?” And the man said, “I don’t know about any of your issues, all I know is I was crippled and now I can walk.” And (paraphrasing) John “Well, I don’t know about your philosophy or your other gods and don’t want to debate them; all I know is what I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears.”