Aug 23, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
The gospels upend every human notion of power. The cosmos—superclusters of galaxies, delicate wildflowers in countless meadows, every ocean that teams with life—thrives on one source of energy: a hidden force of charity that does not seek its own, a Person with an...
Aug 20, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
The present crisis in the church—not just the Roman church but in all the churches—centers in toxic male power. It would be a mistake to make the crisis about sex (though I am interested in a separate discussion about celibacy). Sexual abuse is about power, about...
Jul 31, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Jesus stands squarely with humanity. Jesus rejects all human and demonic contempt for mankind, identifies himself with our worst crimes, surrenders his perfections that all men and women might participate in his divine goodness, and stands in humanity's place as...
Jul 25, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
"Christ is a walking, talking Tree of Life, a cross in motion, and everywhere he wanders healing comes to the world." – Fr. Kenneth Tanner 2 Sam. 7:1-14a 1After the king was settled in his palace and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies...
Jun 29, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Athanasius says that God saw humanity falling from existence into nothingness, that God could not bear to lose the creatures he loved to non-existence—the ones in all creation that alone were made in the image of his eternity—and so the Son takes on the one human...
Jun 29, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Diogenes Sitting in His Tub (1860) by Jean-Léon Gérôme I run with cynics. I find them in the church. I find them in bars and coffee houses and at baseball games and all over the screens we stare at all the time. And the first thing I want to say is that I am at times...
