In the next seven days we will experience the most theologically rich, densely packed, emotionally exhausting week of the Christian year (not to mention physically exhausting for those involved in these services). From Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday, the lectionary...
Surprised By Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues by N. T. Wright Are you someone who loves surprises? Surprises can happen in all areas of life, but to those who are familiar with the Bible and have heard its stories from childhood, being surprised by...
What if wearing a cross were the sign of bearing the cross? Wearing crosses is a decoration. Bearing crosses is the discipline of discipleship To access this post, you must purchase Standard Membership, Standard Membership - Yearly, Video Membership, Video...
Graham Greene’s novel Monsignor Quixote (1982) has a moment when the Spanish priest has a “terrible dream” that stays with him “like a cheap tune in the head.” He had dreamt that Christ had been saved from the Cross by the legion of angels to which on...
Nicholas Buxton, The Wilderness Within: Meditation and Modern Life (2014), 95: “The mysterious and paradoxical truth revealed in the death of Jesus on the cross—-that through suffering there is ultimately an end to suffering–can thus be seen as a kind of ‘homeopathic’...
