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Victor Lee Austin

The Rev. Victor Lee Austin, Ph.D. is theologian-in-residence for the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. He is the author of several books including Up with Authority: Why We Need Authority to Flourish As Human Beings (T&T Clark, 2010).

Authority & Obedience: The Big Picture

True authority does not consist in telling others what to do. Authority shows us who we are, it creates the conditions for our flourishing.

Love Is to Make Yourself a Neighbor

By becoming the neighbor, God loved us and enabled us to love him and our neighbor. On his return, he will be our neighbor forever.

The Weirdness of God’s Absolution Timetable

The sequence in the traditional absolution is curious, downright weird: (1) absolution; (2) true repentance; (3) amendment of life. What does this tell us about God's grace?

End Road Work

They are welcome signs on a highway. After miles of slow traffic, driving on irregular and temporary pavement while the main road is being...

Singleness: Eschatological and Evangelical

The Meaning of Singleness: Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church By Danielle Treweek IVP Academic, 336 pages, $35 This important book by Danielle Treweek, a deacon...

Camino En Route

It was the drone overhead that did it. I’m walking alone on this particular stretch of the Camino when I hear an unusual buzzing...

Children and the Public Interconnectedness of Marriage

It is the teaching of the church over centuries that marriage is a union of a man and a woman, a union to extend...

I Was Wrong

By Victor Lee Austin The late Bishop Paul Moore of New York liked to describe the Episcopal Church as “the Catholic Church with freedom.” In...

Good Books and Good Talk

By Victor Lee Austin "Put the oil where the squeak is” can guide adult Christian education programs. What’s squeaking in 2023? In my view it...

Thinking About Death in Easter

By Victor Lee Austin Eastertide is a good time to think clearly about death, for the simple reason that in Christ’s resurrection everything about death...