The Christian hope is resurrection, a hope that should shape our mission and witness. Do our funerals, though, convey this pastorally-rich and biblically-grounded hope?
It is tempting to offer another gospel, an easier one one without the cross. But there God reconciles the world to himself, not counting our trespasses against us.
Human failure, soberly appreciated, reveals the faithfulness of God. Even in pitch-black darkness, divine generativity and grace, mysterious and uncategorizable, still go on.
In this second part of a two-part essay on the disciplining of Fr Ramey who declined to celebrate the Eucharist for three years, we explore the theology of the priesthood.
The Rev. Cayce Ramey, a Virginia rector, abstained from celebrating the Holy Eucharist for three years and was disciplined. What theological lessons might be learned?
