Day: March 9, 2009

A nation of religious free-lancers

The latest American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) shows that more and more Americans claim no religious affiliation and that fewer Americans call themselves Christian than a generation ago.

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Sad news

Our prayers go out to the Rev. Bosco Peters, his wife Helen and son Jonathan, after the sudden accidental death of their daughter Catharine during a University-sponsored Alpine Club outing in New Zealand.

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Are you a Christian hipster?

We assume, of course, that Cafe visitors are, by definition, Christian hipsters. But if you are uncertain whether you belong to this group, contemplate this

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Anglican reduction?
Anglican roux?

We commonly say that communion, and so the Communion, is God’s gift to us, and not simply ours to determine, much less to structure. There have been discussions about a distinctive Anglican charism, our own unique spiritual gift. Perhaps we need to rethink how we want to consider that gift, that charism. We have assumed that it is there, without thinking about why it is there.

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Comprehending the incomprehensible

Now the divine nature, as it is in itself, according to its essence, transcends every act of comprehensive knowledge, and it cannot be approached or attained by our speculation. Men have never discovered a faculty to comprehend the incomprehensible; nor have we ever been able to devise an intellectual technique for grasping the inconceivable.

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