5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (723+ words) The Living Church The By-Products of Faithful Preaching Please email comments to email protected. It is a basic Christian axiom that words do things. God speaks in creation, for example, and in the unfolding of salvation his Word became flesh....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (722+ words) The Living Church In Praise of Ordinary Time Please email comments to email protected. The liturgical year might be understood as having two phases, one active—sometimes even frenetic—and the other placid, with an occasional punctuation mark that gets…...

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…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (353+ words) The Book of Common Prayer is a profound resource and represents a rich religious heritage. Its influence runs throughout English literature and poetry. It has sparked and resolved debates and led to martyrdoms. Most importantly, the prayer book provides Christians…...

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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (531+ words) The Rev. Matthew Kemp, Ph.D. is vicar of St. John’s Episcopal Church and Redeemer Lutheran Church in Centralia, Illinois. He has taught theology at universities in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Kansas. He and his wife, Alethea, have five children. How God…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (258+ words) I had the privilege of leading contemporary worship at a Bible camp in Canada this summer. It had been almost a quarter century since I had done so and it was a bit of a stretch. We might note, to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (444+ words) The Living Church Maturing in Christ, According to the Fathers Please email comments to email protected. Rather than presenting theology as abstract speculation, Gavin’s thesis is built around how early Christians understood spiritual life incrementally, as a gradual transformation of…...

1+ mon, 8+ hour ago   (494+ words) These debates were not merely abstract doctrinal disputes. They involved real people with real lives and real convictions – here in the US and around the world. Yet I was principally concerned with defending my position and, in all honesty, I…...