God re-members us

Ash Wednesday and the promise of life

Seminary theology professor, 1998:

We tend to talk about mind, body and spirit as three separate things, but Christians don’t believe this.

We’re not ‘souls with body suits on’, as some claim. We disagree with Descartes that ‘I think therefore I am’.

We can think of our physical selves - or emotional or spiritual - but we can’t separate our being into thr…