For the joy of marriage
When Christian teaching about marriage focuses primarily on the brokenness and hard work of marriage, we are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Do not be afraid: An Advent meditation
In the narratives of Jesus’ birth, one of the most striking elements is the angelic imperative “Do not be afraid!” It sounds forth time and again like a musical refrain.
Raising Rory & raising Ruth: on Gilmore Girls
Stars Hollow, CT, is a school for holiness, in which the Gilmores receive a thorough education and by their graduation day leave all devotees with proud tears in their eyes.
Perfect happiness
Marriage is a very good thing, perhaps the best of the things that belong to this world alone, but it not the best of all things. And I think that for the sake of Christian marriages everywhere, facing this truth is actually a tremendous blessing.
Return to your first love
I would like to think that we have not become so warped by our passions and by a reliance on our controversies to sustain our interest in one another, in Anglican forms of Christian faith, and, ultimately, in Christ. But I fear we may have. And so I must recall to us all, those resonant words from Christ: “I have this against you, that you have abandoned your first love.”
Gethsemane and the Trinity
Conflict is stranger than fiction;
Love is stronger than faction;
God is no stranger to conflict.
God is stranger than we know,
stronger than we feel,
weaker than we think,
wider than we imagine.
The cup of Gethsemane
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