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2FAB #37: Judges 17-18

March 26, 2017 No Comments

In this episode, the befuddling story of Micah and the tribe of Dan

There is something about being an Episcopalian – a poem

March 26, 2017 2 Comments

A reflection on our way of living faith by the poet Ron Starbuck

Then, in the village I now call home something awoke, a part of me was calling, the practice of my faith. On the highway outside of town was an Episcopal church. No, I thought, there’s nothing there for me. I’m done with religion and those empty promises of love, redemption. Still, it pulled. Hesitantly, I summoned courage and went.

Daily Sip: A Lenten meditation on home

March 26, 2017 No Comments

But the hope of scripture is not tied to any particular outcome. God is not Santa and neither is God the Grinch. Hope lives a life of its own. Hope has much more, I think, to do with presence

2FAB Lenten Special #4

March 24, 2017 No Comments

We continue our reflective journey along the Way of the Cross with stations 7 and 8 (Jesus falls a second time and Jesus speaks to the women of Jerusalem)

Marilyn McCord Adams has died

March 22, 2017 3 Comments

We have heard that Marilyn McCord Adams, professor, author, philosopher and Episcopal priest has died. Adams was a regular contributor to this site and thoughtful explorer of the human relationship with God; she will be deeply missed.

Questions raised by Philip North’s appointment not going away anytime soon

March 22, 2017 5 Comments

The irony which the Philip North controversy has exposed is that it is the so-called liberals who are the ones clinging to orthodoxy and tradition, and the so-called traditionalists who are appealing to liberal principles of freedom, toleration, and equal respect

Jeffrey John calls out hypocrisy amongst bishops

March 19, 2017 10 Comments

Dean of St Albans has again been passed over for a bishopric (this time in Wales) based solely on his sexual orientation

2FAB #36: Judges 13-16

March 19, 2017 No Comments

Continuing through Judges with the story of Sampson, verses 13-16

the Objective God

March 19, 2017 13 Comments

Again and again we find ourselves as subjects addressing God as an object, a separate being – one whom we seek, appeal to, and praise. We ask this divine being to respond, to have mercy, to grant, to forgive, to act, just as we would ask another person to do the same. “We” speak to a God who is not “us,” but something else, whether we think of God as the one in whom we live and move and have our being, or as something impossibly far away. In other words, we think dualistically.

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Author: Jon White