On the precipice of Holy Week
Palm Sunday is to me the most disorienting liturgy of the year.
A catechism of Nature (6): Circles of disturbance and perception
One’s circle of disturbance is inversely proportional to the size of one’s circle of perception. If you are only aware of what is immediately around you, then you will be more apt to frighten animals you don’t see with your ruckus. There is a spiritual lesson in all of this.
Evangelical Catholicism: The ecclesiological vision of Archbishop Michael Ramsey (2)
Anglicanism has become factious in the extreme, and one cannot help but wonder if the spirit of Christ-like gratuity, of self-effacement for the sake of the Body, has been quashed by a climate of hyper-self-consciousness.
Evangelical Catholicism: The ecclesiological vision of Archbishop Michael Ramsey (1)
The death of Christ at once shows the essential unity of the Father and the Son, and consummates the mutual society of God and man. The self-giving of God manifests itself in history, within the context of fallen creation, as the humiliation of the Son.
Audacious alternatives: Clean energy, and justice at Standing Rock
Let’s be audacious enough to hope that a just and durable solution may be found.
A catechism of Nature (5): Autumn
I am an avid hunter and fisherman, but it strikes me that these activities are really more occasions for something else: for looking at the natural world and trying to understand it and, by trying to understand it.
Behold the Cross
The key to understanding the Cross is to shut up, and look, in a mode of humble, agenda-free reception.
A catechism of Nature (4): The sea
What can the sea tell her,
That she does not now know, and know how to bear?
She knows, as the sea, that what came will recur,
And detached in that wisdom, is aware
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