Justification by Faith, Judgment by Works
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Ever since the Protestant Reformation, Christians have tended to read Paul
as opposing any notion of “works-based righteousness.” Salvation, in this
fami...
Ability and Availability
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The spiritual life isn't so much about ability as it is availability.
This Sunday we hear the famous story of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, and a
ca...
Indiscriminate within Boundaries
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Below is a rough translation and some preliminary comments regarding
Matthew 9:35-10:8, the Revised Common Lectionary text for this forthcoming
Sunday. I...
Starting at the edges
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Nothing really winds me up like buzzwords. People throw around jargon like
candy attempting to sound smart without saying very much. Then these words
end...
Quo Vadis (1924)
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[image: A still from Quo VAdis 1924 taken in the catacoombs where a crowd
looks up towards Peter at the top back of the frame as if the camera is
within th...
The World’s Fear Of The Truth-Telling Soul
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God's food for thought.
Don't be surprised when they hate you for speaking God's truth.
The post The World’s Fear Of The Truth-Telling Soul appeared firs...
Doing the dishes so we can spread the Gospel
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We don't spend enough time making the main thing the main thing at General
Convention. But for 90 minutes early one morning, deputies and bishops
gathered ...
God, Grace, and Horses
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To say the past almost two years have been trying is an understatement. We
were living life, and then...
It all stopped. During the pandemic, so much slo...
Bernd Wallet – Archbishop of Utrecht
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After delays because of Covid, Bernd Wallet was finally ordained bishop and
installed as Archbishop of Utrecht in the Old Catholic Church.
Happy Christmas
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Many thanks to all of you who have written inquiring about the silence on
this blog. It seems that after two volumes on silence I have written myself
into ...
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I was searching google images to find the type of steam tractor that one
might find in 1901 for a familial research project and I came across this :
from t...
On Being 80
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oh yes. A new thing. My liver enzymes are up. The result of methotrexate
for 20 years, and leflunomide combined with it, has a high rate leading to
toxic l...