The Holy One Called Home By Ian Olson The season of Epiphany is another phase of the time between the times, inviting the church to remember the revealing of the carpenter's son as Israel's promised deliverer and anticipate the wide... Read More...
The Hidden Lives of the Church’s Religious (Part Two) The external witness of vowed religious — habits, cloister, the Opus Dei (the daily round of psalms, hymns, and collects recited in chapel) — are the first things Christians notice about the monastics among them. But, of course, that is not the whole story of the charism and fruit of the religious life
Exilic Ministry: A Sermon for Seminarians The real struggle in the next generation will be to understand ourselves, as the people of God and not just conglomerations of individuals, in the light of our exilic condition. It will be the underlying test for Anglicans in the Global North. How do we come to understand ourselves as a people with a different narrative, as a people against culture’s grain, beyond the immediate political answers we might give?
Post-exilic Prophets and the Church Today Serving as a rector in the increasingly secular Northeast, I often feel like I am working in an unstable religious context.
The Church as Diaspora Diaspora is not an image of the Church. It is, rather, a historical descriptor of the Church at a given time.
