On Growing Old By Philip Turner It is simply the case that everyone ages and everyone dies. Further, in aging, everyone, in small or large ways, becomes a burden to friends, neighbors, and family. Being a burden is not a m... Read More...
What Does Prayer Do? What is it, exactly, that prayer is meant to do? We can begin with the theologian Oliver Crisp, who writes that prayer is often considered a “solution to a problem — or, at least, as a means by which a perso... Read More...
The Fullness of Time By Eugene R. Schlesinger But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. (Gal. 4:4-5) The first Noel was... Read More...
The Waybread of Our Waiting By Ian Olson “I am weary, O God,” the compiler of Israel’s wisdom complains, “I am weary, O God, and worn out” (Prov. 30:1), summoning the cavernous fatigue we all experience, perhaps even now, as speech di... Read More...
Wanted: Field Guide to Adjudicate Communion across Distance By Christopher Wells I come to the conclusion of my series on the visibility and invisibility of the Church (part 1, part 2, part 3). How to draw things together? Let me propose three, programmatic points th... Read More...
Learning to Be God’s Child Unlike me, God is patient. God is good. God doesn’t need us to pay attention to him but he keeps working at us anyway.
Five Theses on Church Discipline None of us, it seems, is fully practicing what the New Testament envisions for church discipline.
Methodists and Anglicans: Lingering differences Bishops, creeds, Eucharist — Anglican and Methodist stances toward these continue to differ.
