3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (553+ words) The Living Church A 17th-Century Apologist for Our Times Please email comments to email protected. Tomlin situates Pascal within a period of profound upheaval. “The shape of Pascal’s century,” he writes, “was formed out of three cultural earthquakes of the…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (306+ words) As Jack Franicevich has demonstrated through a close reading of the canons of both churches, neither bishop violated any canon or rubric of the church to which he or she belongs. That matters, because it means the dispute is not…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (229+ words) Torrance’s picture of anxious rule following corresponds best to the first tier in Irenaeus’s moral theology. In AH 2.6.1, Irenaeus connects the fear of God experienced by all creatures with the awe-filled fear that all citizens of Rome have for their…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (535+ words) During the COVID pandemic many clergy found themselves making impossible decisions, risking alienation at every turn. They emerged exhausted. Some retired. Some accepted that their ministries had reached their natural conclusion. But in light of those points of transition during…...