Wanted: Field Guide to Adjudicate Communion across Distance By Christopher Wells I come to the conclusion of my series on the visibility and invisibility of the Church (part 1, part 2, part 3). How to draw things together? Let me propose three, programmatic points th... Read More...
Learning to Be God’s Child Unlike me, God is patient. God is good. God doesn’t need us to pay attention to him but he keeps working at us anyway.
Five Theses on Church Discipline None of us, it seems, is fully practicing what the New Testament envisions for church discipline.
Methodists and Anglicans: Lingering differences Bishops, creeds, Eucharist — Anglican and Methodist stances toward these continue to differ.
Methodists and Anglicans: Zeal and patience The healing of Anglican-Methodist division requires an honesty about our differences and our history.
Putting the Incarnation back in ‘incarnational’ The Incarnation is not a principle. It is not just a reminder that God works and speaks through people. It is not primarily a model for ministry.
Good news! Repent! The Gospel reading for this week, in which John called all of us to repent is indeed good news. It is good news precisely because it demands that we face God’s grace and allow ourselves to be changed by it.
Holy living in the PhD desert In those PhD years, I think I learned a number of things about structure, sin, silence, and solitude.
