Waiting for the Light: Advent Reflections
Repentance is the word that best captures what our Advent preparation should be all about.
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.
Things Fall Apart: Musings on Eucharistic Hospitality
Every parish my family has visited in California has made it very clear that absolutely everyone is invited to the altar for Communion.
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
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.
The Trinitarian Theology of Morning Prayer
Our beloved BCP takes us, every morning, right to the heart of the most vital and serious of theological issues.
Parish Practice, Anglo-Catholicism, and the Oxford Movement
What many see as a clear connection between the Oxford Movement and later Anglo-Catholicism is not real.
New Rites: Expansive, Inclusive, or Stifling?
An assessment of the "expansive" liturgies passed at the 79th General Convention.