Mount Athos
An unprecedented documentary of life on the Holy Mountain, a place rarely seen, where prayer has been offered every day for more than a thousand years. I have had the blessing of being there.
August 2013
Editing God’s Word?
The Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), a revision of the Roman Catholic post-Vatican II three-year lectionary, edits out some words of Jesus. On the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C (11 August 2013, Proper 14), the Roman Catholic Gospel reading is Luke 12:32-48. RCL has removed eight verses and reads Luke 12:32-40. One of the
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Praying by heart
How do we say prayers that others have written and make them our own? There’s been a thread through a lot of comments recently around the tradition of reading prepared prayer. And wondering if there is a problem with this. In a way this is paralleled in good drama, good cinema, quality acting. And we
Don’t use the creed in worship (part 3)
My post discussing the value of not using the Nicene Creed at ordinary Sunday Eucharist received good discussion and was continued in part 2 with a promise of a further post on that idea. Fr Donald Schell sent me a document by Fr Rick Fabian arguing not to use the Nicene Creed regularly in the
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Reza Aslan
If you are publishing a book, make sure that you get interviewed by Lauren Green on Faux News Fox News. The interview (above) has gone viral and is benefiting the sale of Reza Aslan’s book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth! I have been discussing this with young people and one sent
Flat Jesus
First there was Flat Stanley. Now there is Flat Jesus. [Theologians: was Flat Jesus actually before Flat Stanley?] St James Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Michigan has started a Flat Jesus project. This includes a facebook page: Do you sometimes wish that Jesus was right there beside you as you navigated through your day? He is,
Anticipated eschatology
Because of the destruction of so many church buildings through the Canterbury quakes, my series on church architecture has a particular poignancy. My posts have often been on some general principle or an individual aspect. On Thursday, 1 August, I attended a lecture by Dr Denis McNamara, an architectural historian and theologian at the Liturgical
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Hebrews 11-13
Last year, we together, internationally and ecumenically, read and prayed our way through the letter to the Hebrews Chapters 1-10. Over the next four weeks, together we read and pray our way through Chapters 11-13. What resources do you find useful? What ideas do you have for working our way through this text? What ideas