A few notes on heresy, orthodoxy, and common witness in the Church’s churches Adjudicating discipline and orthodoxy in the divided churches is profoundly complicated, especially for the “inferior” and “weaker” member-communities of the body.
Wonder Woman, naïveté, and original sin Are we basically good? Are we fundamentally corrupt? Are there other options?
The double cure Toplady's “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me” qualifies as one of the richest hymns, with its biblical allusions, soteriological vision, and complex history.
The strange endurance of torture The “logic” of torture, that “it was okay to torture the guilty,” continued in Chicago policing at least into the 1970s.
Ash Wednesday: Confronting sin and mortality Ash Wednesday confronts us with two truths we probably don’t like to dwell on, truths our culture encourages us to minimize, deny, or simply ignore.
Is Advent a penitential season? Many times over the years I’ve heard Episcopalians insist that Advent is not a penitential season.
Minnesota anger and the angry God Anger can be just, but hatred and indiscriminate revenge never can be.
Karl Barth visits three prisons Barth counsels solidarity with those in Bridewell, San Quentin, Rikers — or the Basel Prison.
