For Maundy Thursday
By Garwood Anderson
The Maundy Thursday liturgy is probably my favorite of the year. So much happens, from the washing of feet to the Garden of Gethsemane to the celebration in the Upper Room to the Garden o... Read More...
Things Episcopalians Say: “The Word of God Is Jesus, Not the Bible”
By Garwood P. Anderson
One of the many reasons to avoid social media is that one of your friends will invariably post a meme like this one:
Social media nonsense doesn’t tend to bother me. I have low... Read More...
Throwback Thursday: Things Episcopalians Say
A few years ago, Garwood Anderson provided this wonderful sendup of quite a few quirks of Episcopal Church culture. They bespeak the affection and propensity for self-criticism that should, I think, characteriz... Read More...
The Way of Love: Rest
By Garwood P. Anderson
“Come, Labor On.” Most Episcopalians will know that hymn, #542 in our 1982 Hymnal, to the tune of Ora Labora (Pray Work). It’s not my favorite, probably because I have for so long iden... Read More...
Reconsidering the Parables of a “Marginal Jew”
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus.
Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables
By John P. Meier
Yale University Press xiii + 441 pp $65
Review by Garwood P. Anderson
When contem... Read More...
The double cure
Toplady's “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me” qualifies as one of the richest hymns, with its biblical allusions, soteriological vision, and complex history.
500 years after Luther, the law/gospel insight remains almost true
Luther's understanding of the gospel has a tremendous liberating appeal, but also grave hermeneutical consequences.
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do
While with his tongue the Suffering Servant made “intercession for transgressors” (Isa. 53:12), with torn flesh he made atonement for those who bruised him.