Eclipsing the heavens
We live in an age of diminished faith, and of dead, eclipsed gods.
Christian readers and ‘the path of charity’
In Christian speech, we are bound together on the path of knowledge whose end is God.
A church of divine mission: Will we die for communion?
Perhaps our vocation is to stay with and even die for the one we identify as a heretic in our midst.
An unheard-of greeting: The Annunciation
The blessed Virgin received the rays of “the sun” when she conceived the Lord. That is, the divinity of our Redeemer cloaked itself with the covering of human nature as with a shade, and by this means a virgin’s womb was able to bear him.
John Keble on judgment before Lent
For John Keble, Lent prepares you to meet your Maker.
Mid-Synod musings: Sexuality, Lambeth Conferences, OneBodyOneFaith
What are other Lambeth Conference resolutions on sexuality? And would OneBodyOneFaith's proposal work?
Issues on the eve of General Synod
Attention has focused entirely on the bishops' report on sexuality, but there are a variety of substantive issues coming before the General Synod.
Confessing Christ: Pope Peter?
Bede points to Peter’s exaltation (historical and, it seems ongoing) over the other apostles as a sign: that those who would enter the Church and be saved must remain in the faith of Peter and in the fellowship of the Church.