The Very Rev. Robert (Rob) Price is Dean of St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Dallas, Texas. He and his wife, Kate, have three boys that range from a sophomore at Baylor to an admitted freshman at Texas A&M to an eighth-grader. He will not have nice things for a very long time. Theologically, if you put Schmemann, N.T. Wright, and Hauerwas in a blender and then strained out anything clever or original, Rob might be the result.
Is this not the acceptable time for TEC to form binding agreements with historically black denominations like the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the AME Zion, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church? If not now, when? If not Michael Curry, who?
Sustained, disciplined reading of this series is an outstanding way for a local pastor to engage with the participants in a great collective effort to renew the faithful interpretation of the Scriptures in and for the Church.
If any bishop, priest, or deacon should be so filled with avarice as to receive more than three times the median family income in the United States as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, let such a one be deposed.
The “entertainment model” of youth ministry is conditioning our young adults to see their walk with Jesus as one activity (among many) that can be dropped when they are too busy or it isn’t “fun” anymore.