If You Have the Stomach, See First Reformed Twice
First Reformed is a testimony that sometimes movies ask something of us.
St. Basil’s Wisdom on Community
St. Basil shows us why life in community is of greater advantage than life in solitary retirement.
Maundy Thursday and the architecture of remembrance
In what way is this night, to use the words of God to Moses and the people of Israel, a "memorial" (Ex. 12:14)?
The paradox of this week
Our highly choreographed liturgies, our rituals of human achievement, may be tinged with failure.
Reinforcing clericalism: our misguided service
Most of our rites for footwashing reinforce clericalism, rather than the mutual submission and service commanded by Jesus.
Seeking the Lord’s face and seeing his back
On Monday, July 21, the Word of the Lord came to me. Sort of. But I only recognized him when he had already gone.
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.
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