The whole of it, not just the tidy bits.
Koinos Via is a place to read about Christianity — Scripture, prayer, belief, doubt, and the questions people actually ask. Run by two people in Sheffield since 2019. No accounts, no comments, nothing to sign up for.
What's here
The site, in six parts.
Everything on Koinos Via sits under one of these. They overlap more than the headings suggest, which is usually a sign you're in the right place.
01 · Scripture
Read it properly
Luke, chapter by chapter. Job and Jonah, finished. The Psalms, ongoing. Introductions to every book, including the difficult passages.
Start with Luke“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.”
Luke 15:20
02 · Prayer
Learn to pray
Real prayers to borrow when you don't have your own — from the early church, from the Psalms, from people who wrote them down. Plus a long piece on what to do when it feels like nothing's there.
The prayer archive“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”
The Jesus Prayer
03 · Belief
What Christians believe
The creeds, what they actually say, and where Christians have disagreed for two thousand years. The arguments are more interesting than the summaries.
The creeds, with notes“We believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.”
Nicene Creed, 325 AD
04 · Questions
Ask the hard ones
The six we get asked most often. Suffering, doubt, hell, sex, money, loneliness. Long answers, no easy fixes, and we say when we don't know.
Read the answers“Why does God let bad things happen?”
2,400 words · written over three weeks
05 · Worship
Sing, or be silent
Hymns with words and tunes, a few newer songs, and a short case for silence that isn't a joke. Also a running argument about what makes a song worth singing.
Hymns we actually sing“Come Thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.”
Robert Robinson, 1758
06 · Life
Tuesday afternoon faith
Work, money, marriage, singleness, grief, boredom. The part of following Jesus that doesn't fit on a poster, mostly because it's too ordinary.
Work, money, and the rest“Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do.”
Dorothy Sayers, 1942
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. And the second is this: love your neighbour as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:30–31