Drawn from the Chalice
All true theology comes from the bottom of the Eucharistic chalice.
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You look at the man who abandoned God and somehow you see Jesus Christ (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowThe first thing I would want to say about Jonah is that it is a very funny book—probably the funniest book in the entire Bible. I mean, here is this prophet Jonah, and the one thing a prophet really needs in order to be, well, a prophet is for God to speak so that he can go and tell everybody what God has to say. Some people want this so badly that they even pretend to hear from God; there are false prophets. But it really does happen to Jonah, the Lo
You don't need Christological heresy to preach the Gospel of the Canaanite woman (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowLet me ask you: What happens in our Gospel today? Well, a mother sees that her daughter is possessed by a demon. She asks for help. The apostles want to turn her away—after all, she is annoying and a Canaanite, the historic enemy of Israel. And even Jesus says, “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”1 But she persists. In response, Jesus
I discovered I had a soul. Then I realized I'd need to keep it. (opens the original)
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Feasting on the Transfiguration with the Laudian Theologian Mark Frank (opens the original)
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If someone described a theologian as a “Laudian” or as a “Caroline Divine,” you would absolutely be forgiven for not knowing what in the world they were talking about. The theological memory of Anglicanism is in shambles, and even if that weren’t the case, its vocabulary is still hard to master.Subscribe nowBut let’s pretend that we have heard of Laudianism—that program of church beautification led by Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud (157
Let's talk about your entirely questionable spiritual life (opens the original)
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I accidentally seem to have made a trilogy about the great mystery of prayer. First, we saw that prayer is the fiery life of the Trinity inside of us, and last week, we saw how this fire cleanses us—how it instigates a divine exchange in which our endless rage, our resentment and pride, our fear is taken from us, and we are given instead the heavenly peace that passes understanding&
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