Questioning our Worship (III): “Why is worship so boring sometimes?”
This article is part 3 of a 10-part series on Episcopal worship and liturgy. The Series Introduction is here. As we come to the third in our series of questions about Episcopal worship, we turn to a...
View ArticleQuestioning our Worship(IV): Why all the Standing & Kneeling?
This is Part 4 of a 10-part series. Before giving some reasons why we as Episcopalian Christians use our bodies in the worship of God, I would like to point out a reason why some (indeed, many)...
View ArticleQuestioning our Worship (V): Why so many words?
This is part 5 of a 10-part series. One of my favorite movies, and one of the ones I love to watch with my six year old daughter, is The Neverending Story. I love this film because in it, the main...
View ArticleDoes the Bible tell us to worship this way?
This is part 6 of a 10-part series. I have spent the last five installments in this series discussing our liturgical worship which we as Anglicans perform. My next question is rather simple, but...
View ArticleQuestioning our Worship (VII): Why Sacraments?
This article is part 7 of a 10-part series. In his magisterial For the Life of the World, Orthodox theologian Alexander Schmemann begins his articulation of the sacramental life with the statement,...
View ArticleQuestioning our Worship (Part VIII): “C’mon, is the Bread really the Body of...
This is part 8 of a 10-part series. Over the years as I have had an ongoing conversation with Isabella, my seven year old daughter who is a budding theologian, about what is going on in the sacrament...
View ArticleQuestioning our Worship (IX): “Baptism: why water, why babies?”
This is part 9 of a 10-part series. When you hear the word “salvation,” what do you think of? Many modern people, both in the church and out, imagine (in a way quite foreign to the thought world of the...
View ArticleQuestioning our Worship (X): why so much repetition?
This is part 10 (the final installment) of a 10-part series. A few weeks ago I had a riveting conversation with a man here in Tyler, a prominent academic, about liturgy and worship. “Episcopal liturgy...
View ArticleWine in the Morning
One of my consistent findings over the last few years (including over a decade now in pastoral ministry) is that few topics stir up more interest than the topic of alcohol and drinking. This is true...
View ArticleDelighting in the Arcane
I recently stumbled across something which truly animated my soul (to dabble in prolixity). ‘Tis the following, one of “twenty-four theses of Radical Orthodoxy:” As much as the secular, most pietisms...
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