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Showing posts with label 15.16.Church.Ecclesiology.Mission.Sacraments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 15.16.Church.Ecclesiology.Mission.Sacraments. Show all posts
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...
2018-01-22

Religion and Incarnation, Exclusivism and Inclusivism

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In this short essay, I would like to fill out a few aspects of what it means to have an inclusivist vision of religions in relation to Je...
2017-11-09

Only 23 years left for the Episcopal Church?

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I recently saw a WaPo article claiming that , based on the statistical free fall of membership in Mainline churches, we only have 23 East...
2017-05-09

The Fallacy of the One True Church™

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Recently a sincere and well intentioned person approached me on social media with a raft of questions about the Anglican Church, the Episc...
2017-02-15

What counts as "Christian"?

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Recently I was in an online discussion about whether a group of people and the ideas they represent are "Christian". My initial...
2014-12-12

Christianity in Two Hours or less

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I have spent the last five years working with students from all kinds of Christian traditions, and from non-Christian religions and secular...
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