May 30, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Basílica de la Sagrada Família The Christian’s path in a social media-driven culture is precarious. Contemporary American discourse finds its engine in Facebook and Twitter, and this engine—as fallen humans engage with it—is indifferent to human dignity.My baptismal...
Apr 10, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
With John Updike, I have no patience for metaphors when it comes to resurrection. I came across these lines from Cyril that tell it. Let’s get real, friends. If our consciousness somehow survives in a disembodied state, if we have a ghostly existence...
Apr 10, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
One of the great burdens of contemporary forms of church is the (largely) unspoken demand to be original. Every. Single. Weekend. This is driven by a popular sense in the contemporary American imagination that any practice or words or songs from earlier...
Mar 11, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
When God shows up in the story of the killing snakes in the wilderness, he shows up as the healer of his people. Anyone who will look on the uplifted fiery bronze serpent lives. Our superstitions, our misapprehensions, about a God who brings death and destruction, a...
Mar 4, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
This weekend a lot of Christians around the world will hear in worship the story of Jesus and the cleansing of the Temple. People these days like to reference the whip of cords that Jesus made to drive out the animals. It comes up in a lot of online debates and...
Feb 28, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
It is a great poverty to imagine that God takes a human body only that he might die. We cannot reduce the Incarnation in this way. If in Jesus Christ the Creator becomes what he makes then God has bestowed on human flesh unimaginable dignity. At the heart of this...
