God’s secret name, and our names
“I AM WHO I AM,” God told Moses (Exod. 3:14). God has a name. But, unlike ours, his Name perfectly expresses what and who he is. “Jeff” is an arbitrary noise, an arbitrary signature, that has no intrinsic connection to a person who by no means has to exist. “Jeff” expresses nothing.
To blaze his Name abroad
"Let us blaze his Name abroad,
For of gods he is the God;
For his mercies ay endure,
Ever faithful, ever sure."
Infinite Beauty
Beauty cannot be suppressed, even by the Church, and Infinite Beauty, who is our living God, really will save the world.
Cadair Idris: Encountering God in Wales
There is a very old legend that anyone who spends the night on Cadair Idris will either be struck mad or wake up a poet.
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.
Unsystematic meditations on the Trinity
Last week, I sat by the muddy flume of the Trinity, ate my lunch, and thought about God’s invisible nature, his eternal power and deity. At its best, theology has no technical vocabulary.
Introducing God and Comics
Starting in February, there will be a new "God and Comics" podcast every two weeks, with Fr Jonathan Mitchican, Fr. Kyle Tomlin, and Fr. Matt Stromberg having a series of discussions on a whole range of topics that relate back to comics, from the elements of good storytelling to romance, mystery, ethics, love, sacrifice, and everything in between.