With Great Freedom Comes Responsibility
Freedom for excellence means pursuing what is most appropriate for our good.
Five Theses on Church Discipline
None of us, it seems, is fully practicing what the New Testament envisions for church discipline.
Epiphany Seen through Monastic Eyes
The central theme for Epiphanytide is the manifestation of Christ to the world, which leads to the obvious exhortation that every Christian is called to repent and believe in the gospel.
The sore thumb, indispensable to the body
When a certain burden must be borne by some more than others, do we suddenly adopt the pirate’s code that Those who fall behind are left behind?
Get on with it
The constant worry I’m not doing things as well or as effectively as I could still simmers beneath the surface.
Christian discipline
Culturally speaking, the word discipline brings to mind notions of strictness and censure, but the discipline of following Christ is not primarily about following rules.
Return to your first love
I would like to think that we have not become so warped by our passions and by a reliance on our controversies to sustain our interest in one another, in Anglican forms of Christian faith, and, ultimately, in Christ. But I fear we may have. And so I must recall to us all, those resonant words from Christ: “I have this against you, that you have abandoned your first love.”