Ripeness
By Joseph Mangina
I suspect that among the reasons Advent is so beloved is that it gives us permission to suspend our toxic religious positivity and speak with truth and clarity about the darkness around us.... Read More...
What an Early Anglican Can Teach Us about Sickness Today
By Angela Heetderks
It’s tempting, in times of scientific uncertainty, to think we have nothing to learn from Christians in the distant past. We would not wish to consult Christians from earlier eras on ques... Read More...
What is the sign of the cross?
"The sign of the cross is a prayer."
‘Interpret thine own work’: Figural reading with George Herbert and John Donne
Donne and Herbert show us what happens when we find ourselves “translated” by the Bible’s figures: our lives are transformed as they are translated into God’s mother tongue, mercy.
“My soul eats twice”: the strange alignment of Annunciation and Passion in 2016
The Holy Spirit "speaks" through the calendar, and this becomes a proclamation of the purest sort: the kind that the "heavens" rather than the Reformed pastors "declare."