The unprincipled God
December 22, 2008
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For Christmas, the Archbishop of Canterbury remembers Karl Barth who preached in 1931 about the action of God which is not based on principles but
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The messy work of renewal
December 22, 2008
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If you’ve ever remodeled a house while attempting to live in it, you have a sense of the chaos and complexity of congregational renewal. It will take far longer, cost you more, and prove messier than you ever imagined at the start. The difficulty lies in the work itself. Pogo’s line holds true here: “We have met the enemy and he is us.
Richard Coles on Advent
December 21, 2008
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I suspect even the jolliest vicar at Christmas feels like an accountant at the end of the tax year. This is not simply fatigue, but frustration with the gap between what we think we are doing and what those unwonted full houses think they are doing.
Beyond Tolerance
December 21, 2008
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Religious tolerance is a necessary but overrated virtue. Its practice comes easiest to the religiously indifferent and to the condescending: “You know this is a Protestant country,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt reminded two non-Protestant members of his administration, “and the Catholics and the Jews are here on sufferance.”
Remembering the real St. Nick
December 21, 2008
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‘Tis the season of Christmas and Santa Claus, it seems, is everywhere. Children anxiously await his gift-bearing arrival, but some Christians are worried that most of those children — and their parents — don’t know who “jolly old Saint Nicholas” really was.
Fox on the Warren pick
December 21, 2008
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The Rev. Susan Russell will be among those on Fox News this morning discussing Barack Obama’s decision to have Rick Warren offer the invocation at
Americans believe in multiple paths to salvation
December 21, 2008
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Even among evangelicals, a branch of Protestant Christianity identified with the idea that an individual must be “born again” into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ in order to be saved, nearly as many Christians said many religions can lead to eternal life (47 percent) as those who believe theirs is the one true faith (49 percent).
Christmas, 1963
December 20, 2008
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Because we wanted much that year
and had little. Because the winter phone
for days stayed silent that would call
our father back to work, and he…
Leaps of faith
December 20, 2008
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Malcolm Gladwell of The New Yorker writes: “There are certain jobs where almost nothing you can learn about candidates before they start predicts how they’ll do once they’re hired. So how do we know whom to choose in cases like that?” The article focuses on quarterbacks and teachers, but what of priests? How can you tell ahead of time whether a candidate will succeed?
Holy chaos and hearty response
December 20, 2008
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Allow us to recommend the lively, insightful conversation sparked by Holy Chaos, or : What Episcopalians can learn from Baptists, Emily M. D. Scott’s essay
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