A Collapsing “Big Tent”? By Thomas Lambrecht Throughout this season of disaffiliation, many United Methodist bishops and leaders have attempted to convince traditionalists to remain in the denomination. They have assured traditionalists that there is a place for them in the UM Church and that their views would be respected.
Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. Jesus told his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me.” Whatever our circumstances, Jesus calls us to follow him with the same words, “…give up your own
In Mary, the Church finds its fundamentally feminine form as Virgin Bride and as Mother. For she, who is the archetype of the Church, is Virgin Bride because she “lets the divine Word become flesh in [her] own body.”[1] The fruit of her fiat is her Motherhood of God and
The late Pope Benedict XVI, in the first part of his book Behold the Pierced One, defends the devotion to the Sacred Heart primarily by drawing upon Pius XII’s Haurietis Aquas and the Gospels to show its precedents in Tradition and Scripture. In Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth, Spirit of the Liturgy,
In Revelation 13, the apostle John has a vision of a mighty beast rising from the sea “having.” We’re told that it rules over every “kindred, and tongue, and nation.” What does this monster represent? And what does it mean for us? Meridian Magazine
On August 28, 1963, an estimated 250,000 people gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, rallying to draw attention to the nation’s racial inequities and insist on change. From the steps in front of the Lincoln Memorial, several leaders moved the crowd with resonance, challenge and inspiration,
10 Traits Of Post-Pandemic Churches With Growing In-Person Attendance Brian Dodd’s findings are based upon his conversations with a number of church leaders. They are promising observations but hard data is needed to support them. How a Small Church Can Be a Sending Church Small churches can care deeply about
While at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, I studied with Professor Peter Tyler who took a Wittgensteinian approach to his research, but applied it directly to questions of spiritual formation in the Catholic tradition. As is generally known by those interested in philosophy, Wittgenstein wrote two primary works: the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus