5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (723+ words) The Living Church The By-Products of Faithful Preaching Please email comments to email protected. It is a basic Christian axiom that words do things. God speaks in creation, for example, and in the unfolding of salvation his Word became flesh....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (722+ words) The Living Church In Praise of Ordinary Time Please email comments to email protected. The liturgical year might be understood as having two phases, one active—sometimes even frenetic—and the other placid, with an occasional punctuation mark that gets…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (353+ words) The Book of Common Prayer is a profound resource and represents a rich religious heritage. Its influence runs throughout English literature and poetry. It has sparked and resolved debates and led to martyrdoms. Most importantly, the prayer book provides Christians…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (229+ words) Torrance’s picture of anxious rule following corresponds best to the first tier in Irenaeus’s moral theology. In AH 2.6.1, Irenaeus connects the fear of God experienced by all creatures with the awe-filled fear that all citizens of Rome have for their…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (258+ words) I had the privilege of leading contemporary worship at a Bible camp in Canada this summer. It had been almost a quarter century since I had done so and it was a bit of a stretch. We might note, to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (444+ words) The Living Church Maturing in Christ, According to the Fathers Please email comments to email protected. Rather than presenting theology as abstract speculation, Gavin’s thesis is built around how early Christians understood spiritual life incrementally, as a gradual transformation of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (150+ words) When this disposition, a gracious gift from the presence of the Spirit, is then practised and repeated, it can become sedimented until it develops into a habitual way of living. We then begin to experience the freedom of those who…...

1+ mon, 9+ hour ago   (494+ words) These debates were not merely abstract doctrinal disputes. They involved real people with real lives and real convictions – here in the US and around the world. Yet I was principally concerned with defending my position and, in all honesty, I…...