Tag: Episcopal Church

• Communal Believing – The Nicene Creed, Part 3

  September 5, 2012

  Someone once asked an old hermit, “Is Jesus your personal Lord and Savior?” “No,” he said. “I prefer to share him with others.” There is wisdom in the hermit’s words. The Christian life is not about “me and my Jesus.” That’s too small, too easy, and too risky. It can quickly degenerate into “Sheilaism.” In Read more
• Who Believes? The Nicene Creed, Part 2

  August 29, 2012

  The following article was originally written for Reflections Online and published by the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas. It is the second in a series on the Nicene Creed. Part 1 may be found here. The earliest creedal statements were short professions of faith, often reflected local concerns, and were not necessarily concerned with uniformity Read more
• Repetitious Believing – The Nicene Creed, Part 1

  August 22, 2012

  I can believe a thousand different things by lunchtime on any given day. “I believe the world is round.” “I believe the sky is falling.” “I believe I’ll have the enchilada plate, thank you.” Some of my beliefs are grounded in facts and reality. Others are based on fears, wounds, and losses. And still others Read more
• Theosis in the Episcopal Church

  July 14, 2011

  In a previous post I wrote about theosis as the human vocation. Theosis, was a central concept and theme within the early church and remains so today in Eastern Orthodoxy. Was theosis lost by the west in the East-West schism of 1054? Where is theosis within the Anglican tradition and more specifically in the American expression Read more
• When There is No Mystery

  June 16, 2009

  I was recently asked, “What disturbs you most about the Episcopal Church today?” That is certainly a broad question and can be answered at a number of levels as even a cursory search of the internet reveals. The easiest and, it seems, the most common way of answering that question is at a surface level Read more