When Belfast Presbyterians Steve and Janice Stockman met Pope Francis in his Vatican library he told them that ‘The Christian faith is fundamentally about an encounter with Jesus Christ.’ When Saul encountered Jesus on the Damascus road, the scales which fell from his eyes were those illusions created by the false gods of religious and political ideology. His mission was no longer to serve religion, but simply to follow Christ. In a world of ethno-religious ideological conflicts, the teaching of Jesus is pretty explicit: there’s only one kingdom to which we should hitch ourselves a ride, and that’s the Kingdom of God.

A talk for The Third Sunday of Easter, 1 May 2022.

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