Renewing the Art of Holy Dying
How might we encourage faith and trust in Christ in the final hour? How might we minister to bodies we believe will rise again? How might we convey the mercy of God to those whose strength is gone?
The Liturgical Movement’s Methods and Motivation
In the Liturgical Movement, the posture was ressourcement, an instinct to draw from old, significant wells long forgotten.
The Liturgical Movement and the History of Prayer Book Revision
The 1979 Book of Common Prayer was not just years in the making, but centuries.
Listening to Converts
We would do well to listen to converts, hear their stories, and come to a deeper appreciation of the church we have to steward and the gospel we have to share.
The Shortage of Ministry, the Crisis of Imagination
The priest shortage is only part of a larger ministry shortage, and the root is a crisis of imagination.
Clear Communication and the Necessity of Evangelism
Do we really want to be heard? Or is Church just a table for our friends?
The light shines incomprehensibly
The light shines in the darkness. And the darkness cannot understand it, control it, name it, manipulate it, or master it.
Martin Luther on the gospel and the Church
For Luther, there is a beautiful ambiguity, a chicken-and-egg phenomenon, even a tension, in which the Church is ever being created and recreated by its gospel proclamation.