5+ day, 21+ 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, 22+ 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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (531+ words) The Rev. Matthew Kemp, Ph.D. is vicar of St. John’s Episcopal Church and Redeemer Lutheran Church in Centralia, Illinois. He has taught theology at universities in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Kansas. He and his wife, Alethea, have five children. How God…...

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, 4+ day ago   (535+ words) During the COVID pandemic many clergy found themselves making impossible decisions, risking alienation at every turn. They emerged exhausted. Some retired. Some accepted that their ministries had reached their natural conclusion. But in light of those points of transition during…...

2+ week, 4+ 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…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1366+ words) Myles Werntz’s Contesting the Body of Christ: A Review The Living Church Myles Werntz’s Contesting the Body of Christ: A Review Please email comments to email protected. As we emerged from pandemic-induced isolation, the theologian Myles Werntz warned us against…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (483+ words) The Living Church A New Standard for Introductions to Early Christian Thought Please email comments to email protected. The book is not necessarily designed to be read straight through. There is no single, overarching historical narrative, but instead several individual,…...