Intimate Satisfaction
I found the fulfillment of my desire for intimacy in its very denial.
A Postmodern Reflection on Mary the Second Eve
Among the various characterizations of Mary, I find myself repeatedly drawn to Mary as the Second Eve in parallel to St. Paul’s reference to Christ as the Second Adam (Rom 5:12, 15; I Cor 15:45, 47).
The Ministry of Matchmaking
Clergy, lay leaders, sensitive readers: please consider a ministry of matchmaking.
The sore thumb, indispensable to the body
When a certain burden must be borne by some more than others, do we suddenly adopt the pirate’s code that Those who fall behind are left behind?
The making of Abram’s name
Babel, Pentecost, and a language for the gentiles
After the Primates’ Gathering, whither gay conservatives?
Some of us are both gay and conservative, and for us, the question isn’t so much how to hold diverse groups within TEC together — the more “progressive” lesbian and gay Christians “over there,” say, with the more “conservative” traditionalists “over here.”
Suffer the little children
Maybe having children is a goad to holiness because it shows us just how little progress we actually make in holiness.
The Cross, the form of marriage
The Cross is the nuptial bed on which is consummated the union of divine nature and human nature in the “one flesh” of Jesus. Nothing connotes this more powerfully than our Lord’s final “word” from the cross.