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.
The Exodus Year: The Diocese of Southern Ohio’s Big Read
We are engaging a year of immersive Bible reading, filtering Exodus into every corner of our common life.
Overcoming alienation: Inculturation, Christology, and prayer book revision
“The incarnation is God’s self-inculturation in this world.” —The 1989 York Statement, “Down to Earth: Liturgical Inculturation and the Anglican Communion”
“Anglicanism can thus be seen as the embrace and ce... Read More...
Wrestling with our past: Cranmer our brother
What do we do when we face parts of the past — or even among brothers and sisters today from far away — that strike us as uncomfortably strange?
Wrestling with our past: Cranmer, familiar yet strange
Central aspects of Cranmer’s theological agenda were pushed aside before 1600; they certainly vanished in that most globally influential rite, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
Wrestling with our past: Cranmer, primitivism, and tradition
It’s not uncommon to slip into primitivism. A timeline often appears. A pure moment is imagined, a “golden age” with its simple, saintly figures.