Worship or works? Engaging Michael Curry and Richard Rohr
Christian worship and Christian ethics are inextricably bound up together.
The limits of self-awareness
“Self-awareness” has become something of a cultural phenomenon of late. Yet for all its benefits, there are limits to what it can achieve.
‘Let the liturgy be’
We spend inordinate time trying to make our liturgy “work”: too much time on prayer book revision and supplementation, too much time on trying to make the weekly service relevant and meaningful.
An engineer looks at prayer: God at the center
I have been released from the pressure of treating prayer like an engineer getting stuff done.
An engineer looks at prayer: ‘Getting stuff done’
As an engineer I tended to view prayer as another way to make and/or fix stuff.
Neutering Jesus
Let us not create a Church so “inclusive” that Jesus himself is not welcome in it.
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.
‘The dignity of every human being’: The constitutive Baptismal Covenant
Describing the Baptismal Covenant as constitutive means that it governs (or at least should govern) how we live as a body; it determines our culture.