T.S. Eliot’s Ariel Poems for Advent – Six Reflections – Ron Dart
T.S. Eliot's Ariel Poems for Advent – Six Reflections
Voices of Dissent: The Prophetic Spirituality of Divine Love Spoken through Martyred Mothers in Liminal Space – Marisa Lapish
The prophet is engaged in a battle for language, in an effort to createa different epistemology out of which another community might emerge. The prophet is not addressing behavioral problems. He is not even pressingfor repentance. He has only the hope that the...
Hospitable Church: The Challenges of Language, Space & Ritual for Table Conversations About Race and Gender – Marisa Lapish
The first step toward love is a common sharing of a sense of mutual worth and value. This cannot be discovered in a vacuum or in a series of artificial or hypothetical relationships. It has to be in a real situation, natural, free.The experience of the common worship...
Martyrs and Mystics: Feminine Resistance in the Early Church – Tabitha Sheeder
Judah & Tamar - School of Rembrandt As a young girl, I remember listening to stories about church history, noticing how often they featured courageous men. I was confused and slightly disappointed at finding few stories that featured female characters....
Snapshots – Katie Skurja
My father died this week after a bout with COVID. Within hours of his passing, my siblings and I started posting pictures, memories, and dad-isms on our family group chat. With each snapshot of his life, I found my mind drifting to various memories attached to the...
Not all who disagree with you are “Progressives” – Open Letter to Alisa Childers – by Joe Beach
December 7, 2020 Denver, CO Dear Alisa, Thank you for your service to the body of Christ. I appreciate your passion. Your work is needed. There really are enemies of the gospel out there and there really are wolves in sheep’s clothing from whom we...
“Herakleitos, Aeschylus & the Jewish Zeus” – Ron Dart
P.S. It is interesting that Herakleitos was from Ephesus and the notion of the "Logos" was front and centre to Herakleitos -- and then St. John and Mary the mother of Jesus settled in Ephesus. John begins his major book with the "Logos."...
On Using the Cleansing of the Temple to Justify Violence – Chris Green
To those who want to use the story of the Temple cleansing to justify violence, I’d say, first, that it’s a dangerous mistake to identify “America" with Israel or the Temple with the Capital (the so-called “Temple of Democracy”). But even if we leave that...
“Postcards from Babylon: the Church in American Exile” — documentary review by Brad Jersak
"Postcards from Babylon: the Church in American Exile" Documentary review by Brad Jersak “Come home. You’re better than this.” —Daniel Dietrich, Hymn for the 81% You had me at Brian Zahnd. When the first seven days of 2021 had already trumped (sic) the...
Sedition and Silence – Jim Wallace
What has been happening since the outcome of the November presidential election has been historic: continuous acts of sedition aimed at overturning the results of an American election by the current president of the United States. Our nation’s first president, George...
Jesus & the Canaanite: A Rhetorical Rebuke for the Xenophobes – Dave McFadden
The story of the Canaanite woman in Matthew 15:21-28 is an unusual miracle story.1 There is an apparent harshness and rudeness to Jesus’ words which creates an uncomfortable tension for many readers today.2 Some going as far as believing “Jesus’ behaviour...