Meaninglessness in the Time of COVID-19 Guest Contributor June 25, 2020 Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Landon Moore The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a terrible toll on the world's economy, as well as on our relationships, mental health, and lives overall. In this crisis, you may have been laid off from ... Read More...
How to Be Religious Stewart Clem June 25, 2018 Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church Being religious indicates something very basic: recognizing God as creator and responding with gratitude.
Pray for those who upset you John Mason Lock January 4, 2018 Commentary My plea would not only be for understanding and real human sympathy but also for intercession. I cite Job as a model.
John Calvin on Job: Sermons of a pastor John Mason Lock July 26, 2017 Commentary, The Episcopal Church One of the refreshing parts of Calvin’s approach to Scripture is his existential realism — he has a thorough appreciation of the Pauline doctrine that all are sinners, and so he is not afraid to see the heroes of the Bible as alloyed with sin and weakness alongside their better qualities.
Inhabiting Job in Lent Wesley Hill April 13, 2017 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church Now in Holy Week, we remember where we began: with ashes smeared on our foreheads.
Teaching pastoral theology with the Book of Job John Mason Lock March 3, 2017 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church How do we encourage people to put themselves into the place of Job, so they see that God is really the one to whom they may need to complain and from whom they need to hear?
God’s visitation Mac Stewart November 28, 2014 Commentary In older Anglican prayerbooks, "The Order for the Visitation of the Sicke" instructed the minister to direct an exhortation to the sick person. He or she is to know "certainly" that "your sickness...is God's visitation."