One Solution for the ‘Clergy Shortage’: Restore the Diaconate
We have a tool already forged to meet many shortages and emergencies: a diaconate.
TBT: National ordination exams
“Ordination tests are to discover a minimum of knowledge to be expected, and passage of the tests is not to be considered as evidence of any profound scholarly achievement” —Bernard Iddings Bell, 1936.
TBT: Ember Days
The Living Church, 1936: “Four times a year the notices on Sunday call our attention to the Ember Days.”
Russia in the West
Following the revolution, the Russians in Paris helped preserve the faith for later Orthodox generations, and they brought something to the West.
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.
Why some evangelism peters out: Suggesting solutions
True movements of the Spirit of God in Christian history were never the result of the concurrence of a committee.
Why some evangelism peters out: The negatives
I believe that our Church has, at long last, awakened to the need for evangelism.
The Red Menace
Now is not the only time anti-Russian hysteria seemed to seize the nation.