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2023-07-20

A Provocation on Mencken and Saving Humanity

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Every so often a cautionary quote about philanthropy makes its rounds, warning us against those who claim to have the best interests of othe...
2023-06-28

The Many Loves of the Love of God

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When we speak of the Love of God, or praise God for God's Loving-Kindness, we are remembering that above all, God is Love. But this Love...
2023-06-26

Imagining a Divine Covenant with Artificial Intelligence

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What if God made a Covenant with Artificial Intelligence in a way similar to God's many Covenants with different groups of people in Scr...
2023-06-05

Love and Apocalypse

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There appears to be a contradiction  Between "Love one another As I have loved you" And "He will come again in glory To Judge...
2023-06-04

A Prayer for Trinity Sunday

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Today was Trinity Sunday. Many people consider the idea of the Trinity to be conceptually difficult at best, and outright contradiction at w...
2023-05-21

The Magi In My Life

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This is an Epiphany sermon based in the story of the magi from Matthew 2.1-11 , as well as the Episcopal School of Dallas virtue of “Opennes...
2023-04-09

Easter and the philosophy of embodiment and matter

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Around Easter, I was in another discussion about the necessity of the resurrection for the hope proclaimed in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Th...
2023-03-16

The Body of Christ needs a Left and a Right

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This was written in 2007 for a class I was taking on the Church and Social Change. I have never posted it online because I received negative...
2023-02-19

Christ's Way and the ways of religion

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  For years I have been teaching on Global Religions and Comparative Theology, with a particular passion for talking about how Christ relate...
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...
2023-01-01

Scriptures on experiencing Divine Light

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I figured I would start the year with a little Bible study. Here are some things that Scripture tells us about Divine Light and how we may e...
2022-12-23

Sophiology: Holy Wisdom as the Divine Feminine

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Throughout Church history, Orthodox theologians from the Second Council of Nicaea (787) to the 20th century Russian "Sophiologist"...
2022-12-21

God's relationship with the world and culture

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This is intended to help us understand how " Scripture speaks " on various topics. I have taken topical outlines I created for pre...
2022-12-12

Twas the Night Before Christmas, Gym Edition

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Twas the Night before Christmas and all through the gym Every lifter was repping to get swole or get thin The Weightlifters snatched and cle...
2022-12-07

Making Artificial Intelligence in the Image of God?

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As we have recently read about in the New York Times and the Atlantic , very powerful Artificial Intelligence programs have now become avai...
2022-12-03

The Empty House and Evil Squatters

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Recently a friend of mine read Jesus’ parable about the empty house of the soul, and the evil squatters who come back to take possession of ...
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...
2022-09-17

Seven Tips on Leading Camp Songs in School Chapel

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So, you have gone on retreat, or to camp, and you have had an amazing experience of God, and now you want to share that with your local cong...
2022-08-31

The Politics of God’s Kingdom

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For a long time I have said: Wherever there are people, there are politics. Politics are the distinctive ways of organizing a community, ens...
2022-07-27

The Metaphysics of Materialism

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Materialist determinism is a perpetually popular view in the modern world. It is the metaphysical viewpoint which denies metaphysics by posi...