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“… for us and our salvation” — why do we need saving?

Pierre Whalon
8 min readMay 29, 2021

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“For us and for our salvation”, the Nicene Creed says, the Logos pitched its tent among us.[1] When we are confronted with this Christianity that “offers us a narrative and says: now, believe!”,[2] believe what? That is to say, what connections am I to make when, say, I read the Gospel of Mark for the first time?

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Pierre Whalon

Bishop in charge, Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, 2001–2019. French-American. Musician, composer, author, happily married. www.pierrewhalon.info