Author: Marc Williams

I have been writing since 2014 to more than supplement what goes on in most Christian churches. I grew tired of waiting for anything more significant from church beyond its rather formulaic presentations. I did and still do want to clarify who and what God and Jesus are all about. This blog digs deeper into my sense of Christian faith as it has evolved over many years, initially from poetry and more recently in essays and my book, Once Every Day Becomes Easter (2015). I hope you will find this blog to be useful in your own Christian journeys, and welcome suggestions for further writing. I can be reached at marcwilliamsmocksville@gmail.com.

OUR UNRAVELING PURITY

I am finishing up reading a book about the Puritans, which focuses on their sense of persecution in England and coming to what will become Massachusetts in the 1620s to establish a sense of freedom here to develop a Bible-based society. The Puritans thought of themselves as “the new Israelites,” and saw “the New World” […]

WHY THE JEWS HAD TO KILL JESUS

First, about the title. Some will either feel offended or correct me for being historically wrong, since we all know that Jesus was crucified by the Romans. Although I am a Christian, this essay will eventually come around to a Jewish psychological perspective to try to explain the necessity of their removing Him as a […]

NUDGING THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY TOWARD GREATER CLARITY

Several years ago, I read a book entitled No One Sees God, which strikes me as the starting place for all religious doctrines, whether Christian, Jewish or otherwise. Perhaps it was the ancient Egyptians, before the Israelites, who first tried to fill in the vacuum between all we don’t know and the too-little we do […]

JOHN THE BAPTIST

What is the place of John the Baptist in the trajectory between the Old and New Testaments? What does his work say about God’s frustration with us after His long attempts, through both stories and prophecies, to persuade us to follow Him in the OT essentially fail? The OT tries but fails to go deep […]