Rewarding, Not Easy, Listening
The Majesty of the Flesh and Mother of God are punctuated with lyrics rooted in Bozeman’s Orthodox faith, which makes his lyrical voice distinct in America’s musical scene.
The Alleged Bigotry of Jesus
Was Jesus a racist? As usual, social media hosted a flood of opinion.
Linguistic Purity Is an Impossible Liturgical Criterion
The pursuit of an immaculate vocabulary will be interminable.
Why the Lambeth Conference?
Why does the Lambeth Conference matter? On an interview on a new book: The Lambeth Conference: Theology, History, Polity and Purpose — The First 150 Years.
U2’s America
U2’s America: a promised land for refugees, safeguarded by (filthy rich) pop star prophets, subverted by the wrong sort of elected officials. There are no blue-collar workers and no rural communities
A blessing for visitors
What does it mean to make the liturgy more inviting? Episcopalians believe in welcoming others, especially in church, but inviting is different from welcoming.
The surprising story of the Religious Right
Williams traces the Religious Right back to the surge of fundamentalist public presence that followed the First World War.
The Table: A post-political liturgy
In the wake of the inauguration, I propose the following. Churches should create a community-oriented event called the Table. The goal here is to create a space in which political partisanship takes a back seat to human interaction, and thus defuses fear of the political “other.”