Why kids? It’s a whole new level of children-should-be-not-heard — we’re moving toward children-need-not-actually-exist.
Considering the Trullo Canons I recently received three sets of books that I had imagined since seminary seeing on my shelves one day: the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (I & II). I couldn’t wait to begin dipping into Chrysostom’s homilies and selections from Augustine that I had never read.
On being ‘spiritual, not religious’ There is indeed a waiting that is a listening, yet the path to spiritual flourishing proceeds upward.
Why be an Anglican? William writes: “Might you have some encouraging words for someone who is recently converted to Anglicanism / Episcopalianism — who does not want to join ACNA, AMiA, or, for example, the Reformed Episcopal Church — who wants to enter TEC but is frightened because of its current, tragic state?”
Dead and gone? Our concept of communion with the departed is anchored in our theology of Baptism. Baptism begins eternal life.
Abp. Welby’s priority: prayer To raise a call to prayer, to make it one’s priority beyond all other things, is to declare that prayer has, in some sense, been devalued of late or even abandoned in favor of other activities or no activity.
