Learning to tell time liturgically Porter Taylor: Liturgical time is thick. It is different. It is new. And it is utterly real. Our experience with and encounter of the living God through the sacrament of sacraments is the pinnacle of the Church’s worship.
Cadair Idris: Encountering God in Wales There is a very old legend that anyone who spends the night on Cadair Idris will either be struck mad or wake up a poet.
The soul, the body, the resurrection: pop culture and theology What do The Originals, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and Infinity Blade have in common? Gregory of Nyssa, apparently.
Beards, bourbon, the “new” masculinity Is masculinity "in crisis"? If so, a new wardrobe, new alcoholic beverages, and a pretense at having manual labor bodies isn't going to fix anything.
Patristic reading and the beheading of John the Baptist For the past several years, I've committed myself to reading passages from the Church Fathers during the Daily Office. Here is one such reading.
A year in review, and some steps forward It’s hard to believe the Covenant relaunch happened a little over a year ago. But we’re here to stay, and we pray that God will use our humble efforts in the renewal of his Church and its common life.
Bishops writing up a storm Bishops Matt Gunter of Fond du Lac and Jake Owensby of Western Louisiana have been churning out post after post recently. (Is this just post-vacation energy, or is God renewing the vocation of the writing bishop?)
The Narnia option C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man, like Huxley’s Brave New World, sounds a thoroughly pessimistic note. But Christian hope for the renewal of creation permeates Lewis’s fiction.
