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Christopher Yoder

The Rev. Christopher Yoder is rector of All Souls’ Episcopal Church, Oklahoma City. Raised in western Pennsylvania, he studied at Wheaton College and Duke Divinity School.

On Praying the Creed

The Creed is a statement of doctrine, but it can also be an entry for prayer, a chance to meditate on the mysteries of the faith.

A Theology of the General Confession

Lent is a fitting time for careful reflection on a familiar Anglican prayer of repentance, the General Confession.

At Gethsemane with Rowan Williams

In his poem, Gethsemane, Rowan Williams helps us to see that in the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ's prayer encompasses all our prayers and all our afflictions.

Awakened in Advent

Step out into the cold, early on a wintry morning, and you’ll find yourself suddenly awake. A second ago you were yawning and rubbing...

The Appetite for God in the Psalms

The most valuable thing about the Psalms, thought C.S. Lewis, is the way in which they express an utter delight in God. In his...

The Prayer of Humble Access: The Case of a Missing Phrase

We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great...

Crumbs From Under the Table

The Prayer of Humble Access is a precious treasure of the Anglican liturgical tradition. Here it is in the form it has taken for...

Watching and Waiting

"Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or...

Keeping Company with God

This is a brief note to commend to you a book that I recently encountered for the first time: Prayer: Living with God by...

‘Where the Wild Things Are’

By Christopher Yoder And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered...