Feb 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Elizabeth Turman-Bryant asks, "What does it look like for ordinary churches to live out radical hospitality?" This video introduces her findings on what is common to all such works. Click here to visit the full website.
Feb 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Acts of vengeance to vindicate honor have been in the press on a near daily basis this past month, causing me to think seriously about how Jesus exposes and deals with human violence and reveals God’s radical, shame-disarming power. In the immediate aftermath of...
Feb 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
DARE WE HOPE for the SALVATION of ALL? Origen, St Gregory of Nyssa and St Isaac the Syrian Bishop Kallistos Ware The Collected Works Volume I The Inner Kingdom, St Vladimir’s Seminary Press Crestwood, New York 2001, 193-215. Prev. publ. in Theology Digest 45:4 (1998),...
Feb 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
The following excerpt is from the Jesuit theologian, Gustave Martelet, in his article on 'Hell' in The Encyclopedia of Christian Theology, Vol. 1 (ed. Jean-Yves Lacoste). Our creation in Christ has made us, by vocation, into beings to whom the...
Jan 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Reality at all levels and in every dimension is a mystery. I will not suggest that the world which we experience with our own senses is not reality; nevertheless, what we perceive is the surface of reality, which is penetrated only with great effort over time. The...