Berdyaev and the death of the Episcopal Church

I’m on a Heschel and Berdyaev kick lately. I’m returning to some of the authors that shaped me some 20 years ago. Whilst reading a Berdyaev essay tonight, I realized my central issue with the national body of the Episcopal Church suing congregations that...

Theodicy

I heard a rather brilliant short sermon this week from one of our seminarians. He took a text from the Hebrew Scriptures and tied up the theodicy in a very elegant package. The most striking image in his sermon was the plumb line of Amos.. We can’t ascribe an...

Fox News has actually interested me…sort of

It is true that I don’t really watch TV.  My perspective on Fox News is certainly biased.  I only find out about what they are doing through Twitter.  Amazingly enough, something that went viral actually interested me, though maybe not directly....

Music as a tool for contemplation

I don’t always have the chance to work in larger forms.  One of my current writing projects is a one woman short opera on Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love. I’m writing it for my dear friend Rebecca Shane, and I can’t wait to...

The new language of worship

I am still reflecting deeply on Krista Tippet’s interview with Christian Wiman, the editor of Poetry Magazine.  In the interview, Wiman references a few familiar passages from Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison. From p. 281, “I often...