Tag: heresy

  • Between Proper 17 + 18 (Year B)

    Between Proper 17 + 18 (Year B)

    Part of the challenge for preparing for this week’s gospel is that we’ll forget about last week’s. Let’s read them as going together.

  • Wrestling Three at Once

    Wrestling Three at Once

    Preparing for Trinity Sunday is different than most other Sundays. Because there is stuff we just have to do with the Trinity.

  • Between Proper 20 + 21 (Year A)

    Between Proper 20 + 21 (Year A)

    We’re moving into teachings from within the midst of Holy Week. And it is important to give ourselves that context to understand them.

  • Consequential

    Consequential

    Dealing with a figure like Remigius can be its own challenge. In part because we confuse consequential for good.

  • The Imperfect Path

    The Imperfect Path

    The challenge of faith is that we don’t get to say who are “real Christians”.

  • Looking for God In All the Wrong Places

    Looking for God In All the Wrong Places

    10. Our individual pursuit of the divine leads us away from community. The Great Western Heresy When the Rt. Rev. Katherine Jefferts Schori addressed the General Convention of The Episcopal Church in 2009, she spoke to a church on the front lines of our next reformation. A church which was still in conflict over its ecclesiology…

  • Jesus the Snake

      An alternative homily for Lent 4B |  John 3:14-21 It is an odd place to begin the story: with the snake. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. The lectionary cuts off the…