Evangelicalism, the Bowe Bergdahl Affair, and the Church
The Bowe Bergdahl affair(I’ve been watching Sherlock Holmes) raises once again the question of the nature and character of evangelical Christianity. Christianity Today published an interview with...
View ArticleChristians Embrace Death and the Particularity and Physicality Of the Gospel
We Christians are anxious about the state of our institutions. We at the same time want to believe someone has the fix. So, we make pronouncements. A number of people including Tony Jones and Brian...
View ArticleChurch, Race and the Nation State: Prolegomena
I’m embarking on a series of posts in which I want to look at what it means to be church in light of Ferguson, Missouri and the killing of Michael Brown at the hand of a police officer (and that this...
View ArticleIcon of the Epiphany
Yesterday was the feast of the Epiphany. In the west this feast is the celebration of the arrival of the Magi and their adoration of the infant Jesus of Nazareth presenting him with gifts of gold,...
View ArticleThe House and the Smoothie: John the Revelator and The Liturgist
This is the third post in what seems to be the beginning of series of posts on Liturgy and Worship. The first in this series can be found here, the second is mentioned in the first paragraph below. LEK...
View ArticleThe Mystagogy of Easter : The Doubt of Thomas the Twin
The lectionary each season of Easter brings us back to the same texts. Lent has a similar structure but there is a little more variation between each year in the three year cycle, while for Easter we...
View ArticleThe Mystagogy of Easter: According to what Reality Do We Live?
Mystagogy for the Third Week of Easter: The Meaning of God’s Union with Humanity (For the first in this Easter mystagogy series see The Doubt of Thomas the Twin) We are encouraged in the texts for the...
View ArticleMystagogy of Easter: Vine and Branches
If you are like me raised in Sunday School the Gospel for the 5th Sunday of Easter may be very familiar to you: I am the vine you are the branches. This familiarity shouldn’t render impotent this rich...
View ArticleFragments of posts in Progress
Lately I’ve been posting more at Personal Musings than here. This space is theological, pastoral, and iconogrpahic. The three most recent posts at Personal Musings almost fit in this space, yet I...
View ArticleTheoldicy and Atonement theories out flanked: A More Christ Like God
Bradley Jersak’s A More Chirstlike God: A More Beautiful Gospel, is an excellent reflection of God’s self-revelation in Jesus Christ and its meaning for our salvation. Jersak sees that we have come...
View ArticleThe Intlectual Life of Bonhoeffer: A review of Strange Glory
A Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh brings to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s biography some previously unknown tidbits, and a well-documented and academic account of Dietrich...
View ArticleOn a Way Toward an Ecclesial and Trinitarian Exploration of Sexuality and Gender
Rowan Williams, in his essay The Body’s Grace , proposes a way forward in thinking about human sexuality that can both hold to the Tradition of the Church and at the same time be open to and affirming...
View ArticleNPTS Symposium Race and Racism , Ecclesiology, and a Confession
The opening session of the Symposium for the Theological Interpretation of Scripture, Race and Racism Dr. Love L. Sechrest of Fuller Theological Seminary presented the paper Enemies, Romans, Pigs, and,...
View ArticleChurch, (Sex), Family and Tradition
This is an interlude in the series of blog posts on Ecclesiology and human sexuality begun here. Peter J Leitheart resent essay at First Things Sex and Tradition, illustrates my frustration with much...
View ArticleRe-imagining the Tradition in the face of White Distortions
Transmission of the Tradition and incorporating new groups and peoples into the Body of Christ is a complex process. The second chapter of Ephesians uses a number of mixed metaphors in giving an...
View ArticleThe Peculiar Household of God, Father Son and Holy Spirit
This reflection is a riff on Ephesians 1:1-14, and is the first post in a series of blog posts whose introduction can be found here Ephesians shows us what has been revealed about God’s will. Paul is...
View ArticleLove as insight : The Epiphany
Yesterday was the Epiphany. In the western liturgical calendar we focus on the adoration of the magi. Historically though, two other Gospel events are also celebrated, the Baptism of Jesus of Nazareth...
View ArticleThe Joy of Transformation
Texts for contemplation: Matthew 3:1-17; Mark 1:1-11; Luke 3:1-21; John 1:19-34; John 2:1-11 Although we have left behind the celebration of Christmas. Liturgically we are still basking in the light...
View ArticleA Peculiar Household In Ephesians
This is the third post in On a way Toward an Ecclesial and Trinitarian Exploration of Sexuality and Gender. If you haven’t read that intro or the first post on the Household in Ephesians 1 this post...
View ArticleHaving Nothing to Show: Spirituality without Accounts
Jesus said to the twelve, “As you go, proclaim the good news, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You received without payment;...
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