Drawn together: St. Augustine’s Oak Cliff, one year later Fr. Paul Wheatley January 27, 2016 Commentary A year-and-a-half into working at St. Augustine's, I am beginning to see some of our successes, opportunities we have yet to engage, and a few challenges that we will need to answer if we are effectively to serve either the needs of our neighborhood today or the Church of tomorrow.
Boundaries, blessings, and hope for the future Fr. Paul Wheatley November 18, 2015 Commentary In this post, I want to offer a few further observations that could prove helpful, if the biblical-historical situation of Gentile inclusion in Acts 15 and other places is to provide clues for a way forward in a mixed-economy Anglicanism.
Boundaries, blessings, and the hidden gifts of Church conflict Fr. Paul Wheatley September 2, 2015 Commentary The struggle over Gentile inclusion has become a totem in Church conflicts for anyone wishing to claim historical precedent for their side of the argument.
The Blues run backwards: Girard, mimesis, and Doug Burr’s Pale White Dove Fr. Paul Wheatley May 21, 2015 Music Burr’s musical archaeology unearths the bodies buried beneath the floorboards of the American cultural edifice.
Echoes of silenced prayer Fr. Paul Wheatley March 19, 2015 Commentary The violence wrought by ISIS and the Syrian civil war threatens to destroy the religious and cultural heritage of the Middle East. Lost Origins Productions is attempting to preserve ancient Sufi and Christian chant in a series of stunning albums.
Practicing the presence of place Fr. Paul Wheatley January 8, 2015 Commentary Wendell Berry: "It is by the place we’ve got, and our love for it and our keeping of it, that this world is joined to Heaven."
Church of the Japanese holdout? Fr. Paul Wheatley November 3, 2014 Commentary Hiroo Onoda spent twenty-nine years fighting a war that had been over for a long time. Is this an analogy for the Church?
