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2026-07-15

Theosis in God but Not as God: A Trinitarian Map of Panentheistic Participation

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To dive into the deep pool of how we participate in God through Christ requires wading out of the shallow, legalistic courtrooms of modern W...
2026-06-20

Taking Pride in the Families God knits together

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As is often the case during Pride month, the hornet's nest of culture war rhetoric is stirred up once again, as our major media outlets ...
2026-01-14

My Life as a Toilet

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There is nothing as useful As a toilet: When the body demands it There is no higher priority In the whole world. An ever-present porcelain p...
2025-10-04

EKKLESIA: The Community that helps us thrive

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2025-10-02

SACRAMENTS: Visible Signs of Invisible Grace

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2025-03-25

Some Pros and Cons for Papal Supremacy

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The Roman Church's use of the title "Catholic," derived from the Greek word for "universal," presents a historical a...
2024-06-03

The Entangled Reality of Spirit and Water Baptism

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Ever since I began following Jesus in my late teens, I have read about the debate over the nature, efficacy, and relationship between Spirit...
2023-11-07

Rejecting the Reconquista for Christ's Mission of Inclusion

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Earlier this week I found the Reconquista movement , with its Episcopal version , which details a plan to "re-conquer" historic de...
2023-01-16

Overview of the Seven "Ecumenical" Councils

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Ecumenical derives from the Greek word "oikumene", which roughly translates to "whole inhabited world". A Church Council...
2022-10-30

Does priesthood derive from the New Testament?

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I have a friend who objects to the idea of Christian priesthood because he believes it diminishes and even denigrates other members of the B...
2022-07-15

Twitter Gospel

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A friend talked about summarizing the Gospel in 280 characters for Twitter. So here’s my Twitter Gospel . What is yours? The Good News is th...
2022-07-12

Beware of Prophets for Profits

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“Think again Sunshine!” Pop-intellectual Jordan Peterson has released a video in which he takes the role of a prophet and tells all Christi...
2022-06-28

Should Holy Communion be open or closed?

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One of the hottest debates of the Episcopal General Convention this year is the subject of “Open” versus “Closed” Communion. The battle li...
2022-04-01

Mark Nine Twenty Four

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A Proem ...
2021-01-15

Living Vine, Dead Trellis

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A poetic reflection on John 15.5 and institutional religion.
2020-03-21

The Sacrament of Imagination

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An abnormal Sunday approaches When Church pews normally filled Lie dormant and desolate As the faithful search for ways To fill the v...
2020-01-29

Authentically Christian AND Genuinely Inclusive

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A recent article in the Church Times worries that we are failing the next generation of Christians by not handing down the great ideas a...
2019-04-15

A Prayer for Notre Dame

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I want to say something that could easily come off as flip or snide or holier than thou. So I want to preface it by saying that I struggl...
2018-07-09

Credo: The Story that Reads Us [A Mini-Systemic Theology]

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This was originally written in 2006 in partial fulfillment of requirements for Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology at South...
2018-02-06

The Lombardi Trophy and American Civil Religion

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This Sunday I was fascinated by the presentation of the Lombardi Trophy at the Super Bowl, and how it becomes the final sacrament at one...