The Next Church
If religion continues to church-it-up in pretense and inside baseball, we become like Gilbert and Sullivan operettas: great good stuff, beloved by an ever-shrinking, self-congratulating group of lovely people.
A Neglected Gem: The Sunday First Lessons in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer
Lectionary and liturgical change has largely emptied Anglican services of Old Testament readings.
Speaking of the Dead
I am disturbed that any Christian — among the laity or ordained — would demonize a newly departed Christian soul.
Being an Advent People
In Advent, we ready ourselves to receive the kingdom of God, aligning ourselves with its ways and customs here and now, in advance of its arrival.
Warm Welcome and My Friend’s Journey into the ACNA
Perhaps our decline relates to our forgetfulness about what draws people to church in the first place.
Charism and Congregations
What does the concept of charism have to offer Protestant Christians looking for a church in a pluralistic modern era?
Biblical Trinitarian Language for Those in Need
It is possible to pray with, to, and within the Trinity using biblical language and yet without words that have masculine and patriarchal overtones in common English usage. Pray, I suggest, in the name of the one God: Abba, Christ, and Holy Spirit.
Ritual and Revolution: Conrad Noel and the Catholic Crusade
In music, in dance, and in joyful worship Conrad Noel molded Thaxted into an image of the heavenly Jerusalem.