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Authority & Obedience: The Big Picture

True authority does not consist in telling others what to do. Authority shows us who we are, it creates the conditions for our flourishing.

Advent Is True to Life

Advent is a reminder that, although we have joy in Christ’s coming, but we still long and yearn because that final coming is still far off.

‘What Must I Do?’ (Pentecost 5, Year C)

Biblical religion is not meant to be a matter of logistics, but of love.

Archives: Lent Under Prohibition (1925)

“Especially do we earnestly call upon our bishops and clergy to lead us in such a Lenten abstinence; for these can scarcely know how difficult they make the abstinence of the laity when a bishop or priest is willing to drink socially at the table of a known law-breaker.”

Canonical Obedience

By Steve Rice Some time ago, a bishop told me that when the hurricane is coming, you don’t call a vestry meeting to vote on...

Cultivating virtue

Part two of 'Obedience the Remedy'

‘Obedience the Remedy’

The two key works of John Henry Newman, written while he was still Anglican, present at least an implicit theory of a Catholic virtue ethic.

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?

Humble King of Kings

As the king of all, Jesus could have come down from the cross, as the bystanders dared him to do.

On obedience: We need an abbot

Obedience is a choice to take responsibility for our life. An abbot keeps us accountable.

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