Wrestling with our past: Cranmer our brother What do we do when we face parts of the past — or even among brothers and sisters today from far away — that strike us as uncomfortably strange?
Wrestling with our past: Cranmer, primitivism, and tradition It’s not uncommon to slip into primitivism. A timeline often appears. A pure moment is imagined, a “golden age” with its simple, saintly figures.
Reading the Bible and ‘taking history seriously’: A necessary aim? When it comes to scriptural interpretation, it’s crucial to take history seriously — or so I’ve read. Many of us, it seems, are simply not taking history seriously enough.
TBT: ‘The Year of the Lord’ “In this new year of the Lord that lies before us, there will be a plentiful measure of blood and tears. But, as always, Christ stands with outstretched, nail-scarred hands ready to make every man who responds to him an agent in the dispensation of His healing grace.”
Being faithfully in history “Being in history” is literally an impossibility, or at least an oxymoron. Ordinary humans can only really be in the present.
Master and Commander Many observe that Patrick O’Brian’s novels are comparable to Jane Austen’s, if only she had written rousing naval adventures.
Memory inscribed in stone On a cold Saturday morning in early March, I picked up the "Clerk of Oxford," and we drove out to South Leigh.
Two boats, one gospel: Black History Month and the Church’s witness To speak plainly, no history will make me hate my brother because God nailed his sins next to mine on the Cross. This is not to say that the sins of the slave master and the slave are equal.
