blip : Being Lonely In Paradise :

I preached tonight. I wasn’t very happy with my manuscript. I just don’t think I got it all together at the end. I needed to develop what it means to consider those who have wounds that fuel their longing as spiritual gifts to the church. And how folks like me who just don’t desperately long [...]

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I am a huge fan of the current archbishop of the Anglican communion. His theological work continues to provide new horizons for my explorations in theology. I would have to say his book on the history of Christian spirituality, The Wound of Knowledge, is a must read for those interested in exploring the resources of [...]

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A while ago I wrote a theodicy in relation to natural evil in the form of a scholastic question. Camassia responded with the objection that my theodicy made God subject to a higher rationality or logic (On a side note I discovered this problem of God being subject to rationality is not a new [...]

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At my church we don’t have one person who is responsible for the Sunday worship. We share those responsibilities. Well, one thing I do to make church happen is help plan worship. Recently the planners asked me to compose a responsive prayer that we would pray together every Sunday as we look forward to Advent. [...]

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In September of 1535, a few groups of Anabaptist refugees left Moravia and, as Bernard Schneider said it, wandered “wherever God would lead them, where they would be allowed to work and settle.” These Christian travelers were victims of the cultural climate of suspicion after John of Leiden and the Melchorite Anabaptists in June [...]

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This community of communties gathered under the banner of a new monasticism open up questions for the rest of the church about to listen to the past for new modes of faithfulness.

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