Forming Communities of Practice
How should the Church educate her young adults?
Discovering a Language of Prayer
The prayer book teaches me to pray what I ought to desire and believe, what is no less true even if I struggle to believe it or feel it today.
Between Scylla and Charybdis?
Many of us wish for clear sailing on prayer book revision, but we run a real danger of getting caught by a whirlpool on one side and rocky shoals on the other.
Children Formed in the Patterns of Prayer
At the center of every educational debate stands a mystery: the eternity-haunted, God-imaged soul of a child. What need not remain inaccessible is how to shape that soul for what is True, Good, and Beautiful.
Taoism, Dualism, or Christian Hope? Rey’s Baptism in The Last Jedi
The Taoist influence in Star Wars is undeniable, but Rey’s journey and this film as a whole look a lot more like Christian baptism.
Percy’s Prescriptions: The C of E, Compensation, and ‘Heroic Leadership’
In the Future Shapes of Anglicanism, Martyn Percy offers a series of trenchant critiques and potential reforms of the Church of England, amid many a wonderful aside.
Episcopacy, Priesthood, and the Priesthood of the Church
The Church of England needs an improved theological understanding of the orders of ministry, such as the late Archbishop Michael Ramsey offered.
On Love and Lent
Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday have one primary focus in common: love that comes from God.