Author: Deji Okegbile

Five hundred years ago, exactly, on 31 October 1517, a monk named Martin Luther walked to a church in the German town of Wittenberg and nailed a document – his 95 theses – to its wooden doors, lighting the fuse of the Reformation. The Reformers emerged to correct the decay in the church as the pillar and foundation of truth, hence some scholars argued that it was a challenge to the Papacy centuries of compromise and abuse. Luther’s theses and protest against the official teaching and practice of the Church in Germany was a call to the church to...

Truth has been on trial for the past 2000 years especially with reference to the Passion narrative. The Roman governor Pontius Pilate’s famous cynical reply ‘What is truth,’ to Jesus’ assertion that ‘everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice,’ is a helpful and a defining question for our secular culture. (John 18:38). It is apparent that while recognising the truth, Pilate chose to reject it. Where are the Pilates of our time? Today, many people sound a lot like Pilate, a kind of Pilate syndrome and feeling, free of all guilt, turning from truth and perpetuating...