The Unselfish Pastor
A pastor is called according to the ministry of Jesus himself, who gave up his life for the world.
Christian leadership and disordered desires
Winning accolades or recognition doesn’t leave us satisfied, but leaves us wanting more.
Why technology is killing us
We love the ease and convenience technology gives us, but we have traded something precious in embracing the next iGadget.
Humility: Democracy’s necessary virtue
People have a propensity to seek and attend churches that match their political convictions.
Sympathy for Judas: Martin Scorcese’s Silence
How is one supposed to understand Fr. Rodrigues in Martin Scorsese's film?
What’s preventing a new Oxford Movement?
Has the Episcopal Church developed a more profound focus on the adoration of God, a renewed commitment to justice work grounded in the Incarnation, or a sense of Anglican identity across the real and painful conflicts that have come to define us?
Helicopter pastoring
The work of the Church must belong to the body of Christ, which is much, much more than the bodies of the priested.
Praying with Bernard of Clairvaux
Every so often I come across a text that does for me what reading Cicero did for Augustine: it changes the way I pray. I’ve found one such text in Bernard of Clairvaux’s On Loving God.