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David Mason Barr

The Rev. Dr. David Barr is associate rector at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville, TN and received his PhD from the University of Toronto (Wycliffe College). He is married to Caroline, a Physician Assistant and they have a son and a dog.

Can It Be Forgotten?

In my second year of graduate school, I had the opportunity to take a course called “What Is Scripture?” with the prominent Jewish philosopher...

I’m Done with Content, and You are Too

By David Barr The consumption of digital content is now an immensely important topic for all of us. In the wake of a pandemic still...

Will Liturgy Be Enough? Part 2

By David Barr In a previous post I suggested that fostering relationally satisfying Christian communities should be of primary importance for those of us in...

Will Liturgy be Enough?

By David Barr When I meet with newcomers to my parish, I get asked a basic question again and again: “How do I get engaged?”...

Everyone Is a Homemaker

By David Barr After I graduated from college, I spent two years living in the converted loft of a barn, where I took care of...

Questions Only the Church Can Ask

By David Barr Michael Polanyi famously pointed out in the 1950s that the subjectivity of scientific research occurs precisely in the way it is conducted...

Believing that the Good News is Good

Mark 8:27-10:52 By David Barr In this week’s readings for the Good Book Club (Mark 8:27-10:52), we see two of the most prominent expressions of Jesus’...

Maintaining a Diet of the Word

By David Barr It is certainly no secret at this point that liturgy has made a comeback. I don’t know whether the increase in traditional...

The Cup is What He Gives You

We see in our readings that when Jesus prays for us to be united to him and to the Father, there is then no other way we can choose if we are to be blessed, apart from the one that the Father gives Jesus.

Repentance and Blessing: The Political Posture of the Church

If we genuinely seek the welfare of our cities, the work will only rightly begin as we repent and seek God’s refashioning of our lives — and that of our neighbors.