You may have read the story of Pastor Jeremiah Steepek. I saw it on facebook, and I want to share it with you. Here’s the story: Pastor Jeremiah Steepek (pictured) transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that
Pastor Jeremiah Steepek Read More »
The Septuagint (LXX) has come up recently on this site. It is worth expanding what this refers to. This is the translation into Koine Greek of the Jewish scriptures and other texts now not included by Jews in their canon. This was done before Christ. Let me be the devil’s divine advocate for a moment:
How to Pray: Alone, With Others, At Any Time, In Any Place by Stephen Cottrell (Bishop of Reading) 176 pages. I am not going to apologise for my tendency (on this site and elsewhere) of trying to translate the monastic into the context of the domestic. But I also absolutely want to acknowledge that there
Internationally and ecumenically we are reading and praying our way together through the letter to the Colossians. What resources do you find useful? What ideas do you have for working our way through this text? What ideas do you have for worship around this text? Hymns? Songs? Video clips? Maps? Stories? Any ideas and resources
The Letter to the Colossians Read More »
A potpourri post with papal pivot. Ordinariate growth? I can’t pretend to fully comprehend the details etc. of the Roman Catholic Personal Ordinariate for disaffected Anglicans. My understanding is that if you grow up in it, and want to be a priest, you must be celibate. “Anglican Patrimony” apparently means Elizabethan language but doesn’t mean
I appreciate the Myers-Briggs personality typing and what we can learn from it. I enjoyed the following prayers for different personality types: ISTJ: Lord help me to relax about insignificant details beginning tomorrow at 11:41.23 am e.s.t. ISTP: God help me to consider people’s feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive. ESTP: God help
Prayers for Myers Briggs Types Read More »
Many of you know that I have been redesigning this website [and rebuilding under the hood]. This website began Maundy Thursday 2006 – originally as a place to make my book Celebrating Eucharist available free digitally. You can look at the different ways this website looked throughout its history on the WayBack Machine [If you
As it was in the beginning Read More »
