Things have a kind of life in God’s World. Sure it’s not the same as human life, nor is it the same as the lives of other animals, nor is it even quite the same as plant life, but it is life none the less. Pretend as we may to be fashionably modern people, disconnected from the material world, we still are —deeply and intimately.
Read more1-2 Kings: A Book Review by Dcn. Dawson
In May of 2020, the same month I bicycled completely alone down the middle of a Kalakaua Avenue emptied by covid, I ordered a book from Eighth Day Books: A Commentary on 1-2 Kings by Peter Leithart. I was a 4-month old deacon and looking to use quarantine to sharpen myself for ministry. Well, three years later, I’ve finally finished the book. I promise that I read dozens of other books in that span, but this one uncharacteristically came on and off the shelf with irregularity.
Read moreGrave humility: After provincial council
p/c: Jomarc Nicolai Cala
There were announcements, and motions passed, and reports given, and wonderful meetings with brothers and sisters engaged in ministry all across the world —these and many other things contributed to making the 2023 ACNA Provincial Council wonderful and encouraging. Most encouraging, however, for this priest was the way in which I witnessed the Gospel proclaimed by the college of Bishops.
Read moreKiss the drowning
By Internet Archive Book Images https://archive.org/stream/lifelettersworko01barr/lifelettersworko01barr#page/n369/mode/1up
Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was first formulated in contemporary medical language in a presentation John Fothergill gave at the Royal Society of London. He called it “the kiss of life.” It was poorly received.
Read moreThe sense of touch
p/c: Jackson David
Sabbatical division reunion recreation
image: from “The Creation” by George Graham
When God does a new thing in the Bible, when he creates, there is division. Think about the creation story: God separates the waters above from the waters below, he divides the night from the day, he raises-up the dry land distinguishing it from the waters.
Read morePassing the Kiss of Peace
…For the several centuries after Pentecost, Christians shared the peace of Christ with one another by sharing a holy kiss, following the plain instructions of scripture (Rom 16:16, 1 Cor 16:20, 2 Cor 13:12, 1 Thess 5:26, 1 Peter 5:14). At the part of our service called “the passing of the peace” men exchanged a kiss, usually on the cheek, with one another and women did the same…
Read moreWhen a parishioner leaves your church on good standing because of a move
…I want to consider those situations which have become among us more and more common as modern society has become liquid and transitory: parishioners leaving a parish due to a work-related or family-related move…
Read moreThe Cross is the heart of the world
p/c: Laura Allen
Reality is cruciform. It takes the shape of the Cross.
Read moreThe Good Shepherd gives shepherds
p/c Greg Roesnke
Yesterday was Good Shepherd Sunday on the liturgical calendar. To summarize the gospel lesson: Jesus is the Good Shepherd who lays down His Life for the sheep (cf. John 10). Jesus does not invent this image in John 10, it is an image he fulfills given in the prophets…
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