What kind of sycophant do you want me to be?
Fraud, including sycophancy, is endless: it corrosively renders all interactions questionable.
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.