Between Presumption and Despair: Further Thoughts on the Ordeal of Hope By Elizabeth Anderson I have written previously about the understanding of hope espoused by many of the monastic writers of Christian late antiquity. Rather than a passive orientation toward a future that wa... Read More...
Holy Desire and Good Counsel By John Bauerschmidt Cranmer’s 1549 prayer book, and subsequent editions, continued the use of a collect first found in the eighth-century Gelasian sacramentary, one identified by the 1559 version as a “coll... Read More...
The Ordeal of Hope: Practicing a Virtue Under Unpromising Conditions By Elizabeth Anderson The early 21st century presents many of us with a crisis of hope much more than a crisis of faith. There are the global issues: climate crisis, mass shootings, racial injustice, war. More locally, we confront the precipitous decline o... Read More...
Easter and the Asceticism of Festivity By Timothy O’Malley If you are friends with clergy or other pastoral workers, the first days of Easter are a time of catching one’s breath. Yes, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil require a g... Read More...
Lent is for Making Christians: The Way of Love Can Show Us How By Eugene R. Schlesinger Lent is a fascinating cultural phenomenon. On the one hand, it’s fairly unpleasant. My daughters, for instance, spend Gesimatide lamenting the fast approach (no pun intended) of Ash ... Read More...
God, Sexuality, & Knots: Sarah Coakley’s théologie totale (a personal appropriation) Over the course of this extended discussion, did any of us change our mind on any of the issues? Even though we did see how gender politics, trinitarian theology, and our own experience of desire are all connected in a thorny knot, at the end of the day, no, we did not, any of us, change our mind on the issues at hand.
