What Your Vows Meant
This is a defense of the marriage vows: these words have enduring theological power. They are not merely romantic. They provide a thick and specifically Christian account of marriage
Drunk with the Kids on Pentecost
There was a laugh to fit each of us, and it was chaos, and it was miraculous.
Lazarus and the Resurrection of a Boy with Down Syndrome
Jesus wept, this little boy played, but the result was the same: death was transformed into an occasion of resurrection hope.
Come for Some Pizza, Stay for Some Jesus
We love liturgy. But if we really onto something, why are we keeping it from the youth group?
Speaking in tongues and praying in poetry
While theology gave me an expanded vocabulary for talking about God, I felt increasingly paralyzed by over-analysis when I tried talking to him.
Reciting the Creed, unplugged
Voices began to find one another in the room. They coalesced starting around “one Lord, Jesus Christ” and by the time we got to “God from God, Light from Light” we were united in one strong vox populi.
The adoration of a body snatcher
Every host Sam would receive in the future could be for him a kind of touchable Sanctus.
Priests are not paid to do anything
Priestly work cannot be measured in terms of a task.