You are a Victorian priest (sort of)
The struggle of priests has nearly always been to relate to their flocks — to be, in Pope Francis’ memorable phrasing, “shepherds with the smell of sheep.”
Chasing chastity
Jason Ingalls reviews Dawn Eden's newly revised "Catholic edition" of The Thrill of the Chaste.
Secular holiness, or how to be happy in the zombie apocalypse
“Modern life feels rather undead.”
Sarah Smith of Golders Green
In the abstract, “sanctity” is boring.
Experiencing God
Many Episcopalians would reflexively balk at “experiential” ways of speaking about Christian faith. They disillusioned by forms of the faith that elicit intense emotional highs but may lack the patterns and habits of living and praying that can sustain faith over the long haul.
Prayer culture
God wants to transform me and use the transformed me to transform his world. But how?
Americans have always been arguing about religion
Intense religious argument, particularly about infidelity, has been part of the history of the United States from the start. And, in the beginning, it only had a little to do with sex.
Our selves, our souls and bodies
Tara Owens’s book Embracing the Body has reminded me of how essential the physical dimension of worship is.