From the Ashes We Will Rise: The Power of Ash Wednesday By James Richardson Ash Wednesday 2018 dawned like no other in my lifetime. A few short months earlier, fires had raged through Sonoma, Napa, and Lake counties north of San Francisco, merging into what be... Read More...
Divine Irreplaceability By Ephraim Radner One of the most difficult things I have done as a pastor is to stand beside people as they face a terrible problem’s irresolvability. I’ve felt guilty, even, in enabling a person’s admissio... Read More...
Ten Theological Theses on COVID-19 and the Providence of God By Cole Hartin At the risk of adding to the influx of handwringing and punditry on all things coronavirus, I want stake out ten theological theses that might orient the way Christians think through the times in which we are living. God intends for us a... Read More...
What an Early Anglican Can Teach Us about Sickness Today By Angela Heetderks It’s tempting, in times of scientific uncertainty, to think we have nothing to learn from Christians in the distant past. We would not wish to consult Christians from earlier eras on ques... Read More...
Memento Mori: On Death and Evil Faith strangely exists amidst explicit doubts when we contemplate our death.
General Convention and Old Blues Men What would it mean at General Convention if we were more conscious of the horizon of eternity?
U2’s America U2’s America: a promised land for refugees, safeguarded by (filthy rich) pop star prophets, subverted by the wrong sort of elected officials. There are no blue-collar workers and no rural communities
Pastoral care during a natural disaster Natural disasters shake something loose inside of people. There is a brief window in which individuals and societies are pried open to the reality and life of God.
