Five Theses on Church Discipline
None of us, it seems, is fully practicing what the New Testament envisions for church discipline.
Who is the Lord of Israel?
Jesus not only stands among his disciples and the crowds; he also somehow stands above and beyond history.
Fellowship with the unorthodox? Some thoughts on a recent controversy
In recent days, there’s been a discussion of the boundaries of orthodoxy in some corners of the evangelical blogosphere.
Anglicans on the Wittenberg trail
It’s not the familiar narrative: four contented Anglicans, of the higher church variety, uninterested in conversion, walking in the footsteps of Luther.
Inhabiting Job in Lent
Now in Holy Week, we remember where we began: with ashes smeared on our foreheads.
Cruciform Epiphany
One way of picturing the church calendar is as an unspooling thread, with each loop expanding the last. But this year, I’m pondering the complementary, and in some ways more elusive and profound, truth.
Canterbury testimonies and the scandal of Christian disunity
My journey into the Anglican fold was, in part, a move toward Rome (as well as toward Constantinople), at least in a certain sense.
Reading Paul for the unity of the Church
How might one read Paul in a way that furthers the cause of visible Christian unity?