"God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way." --Max Lucado ( Read more... )

“But we know God, primarily, in Christ, that is through God becoming a human being, and so we cannot know God in a purely spiritual, unbodied way - and this shouldn't be surprising. We can't actually unbody ourselves, we're not ghosts in a machine, our bodies as well as our souls are who we are. So it's fitting that God, in his love, reveals ( Read more... )

( You Don't Have To Have All The Answers )

Thanks to whitemartyr, to her man Craig, and to one of my pastors for the thoughts which take form beneath the cut. This is something I've been struggling to frame for a while, and what better way to begin the season of Lent?

( Stages of Grace )

I love the mission statement of the church my boyfriend attends. They're Anglo-Catholic (aka high church Episcopal), and more socially liberal than many of the Christians I know would be comfortable with, but they're also very orthodox in theology and practice. And I firmly believe that their mission should be adopted by all churches.

We are ( Read more... )

Just what it says on the label; written by me.

( A Prayer for Temperance and Fulfillment )

From The Atlantic, we have this intriguing distillation from a longer article. I find the point this guy is making both succinct and useful:

Theology Has Consequences

(Don't anyone get up in arms. It's a valid and interesting point regardless of one's party.)

I’m aware that probably everything I’m going to say here has been said before, by others more fitted to say it and in ways that are more illuminating. But since I’m still relatively new to the practice of Lent, I thought my contemplations might interest some of you.

( Reasons for keeping Lent, aside from tradition and community )

So, for some reason I really feel like posting, but I don't have an essay or anything to share with you all, so this will be kind of a random collection of things. :)

( TV shows (brief) )

'I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory. I preached a sermon about this. We are far too anxious to be definite and to have finished, well-polished, sharp-edged systems - forgetting that the ( Read more... )