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?
The Blues run backwards: Girard, mimesis, and Doug Burr’s Pale White Dove
Burr’s musical archaeology unearths the bodies buried beneath the floorboards of the American cultural edifice.
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.
St. Blasé’s welcomes you!
An interview In which an everyday journalist meets a typical Episcopal parish, in all its love for the blessing of animals and the "hypothetical Buddhists" down the street.
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.