Incarnation

Yes, we have a savior who shared in our pain, sin, and death - our agony. But he also had authority to overcome it. And by his stripes we are healed.

An angel sent by God to a village in Nazareth majestically and respectfully waits upon a Virgin whose name was Mary.

In this space between Christmastide and the Baptism of our Lord, it is good to recall that God became man, and not for a moment, playing with human likeness and then giving it up for better things. This is a God who goes to the place of wielded swords and worse. And the child hums in the stable, "become like me."

I can be a grouser and complainer during the weeks leading up to Christmas. At no other time of year do I find my...

Will you see strangers at church on Christmas Eve? There is something of the mystery of Christmas in that. God comes to strangers and dwells with us.

This year, on the First of November, I found myself in a coffee shop attempting to work on a sermon. The Halloween decorations were...

We're continuing our Natality series. Nestorius, David Ney writes, was the heresiarch of anti-natalism. He refused to accept a little child as his God. Christ himself was born as a consequence of God’s decision to make Mary fruitful and to make many other ancestors fruitful, including Eve, whom he married to Adam. It is a risk for men and women to be so open.

October 6 | Pentecost 20, Year B Job 1:1; 2:1-10 or Gen. 2:18-24 Ps. 26 or Ps. 8 Heb. 1:1-4; 2:5-12 Mark 10:2-16 Who will deliver us from this...

Anglicanism today, in its humiliation and fragmentation, can sometimes be fraught with a specter of Belatedness. This is the feeling, personal and communal, of...

Apprehended by both arms and quickly maneuvered through the door, I was tossed inside. The door was slammed in my face, then locked from...