Author: Andrew Gerns

Good theology ‘does’ as well as thinks

Perhaps it’s no mere coincidence that on a week in which preachers were sweating over how to make sense of the Holy Spirit as the Third Person of the Trinity out of their pulpits – a task that seems to turn theology into an unhappy sausage-making exercise – The Guardian asked a few theologians how to define the substance of their work.

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Resurrection for Haiti cathedral’s murals?

Some of the world-famous murals that adorned the walls of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti’s Holy Trinity cathedral prior to the Jan. 12 earthquake, and gave Haitians of all faiths a vision of their place in the stories of the Bible, could be preserved and possibly even restored.

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New ways to build a church in NM

The 11-year-old congregation began with a few families using bales of hay for pews in a local feed store on Mother’s Day, 1999. Shortly afterwards, St. Matthew’s moved to its present location, a vacant chapel on a former state facility for the disabled.

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