“Jesus never said we are all sinners,” said a friend on Facebook. He was responding to a man who said, “When Jesus said we’re all sinners, he really meant all of us...” The initial statement and my ...
The understanding of incarnation – the core concept of Christian faith – is one which is central to a healthy theology of disability. What does it mean to say Christ is human and to say that that ...
No one knows more clearly or more uncomfortably the tensions of life lived between the gospel and economic necessity than a parish clergyperson whose text for the day is “do not worry about your life, ...
The faith in the incarnation has a sound historical and scriptural basis. Nevertheless, as is well known, by much of our modern thought this whole view of God, and of the incarnation of the ...
Along the shelf containing all the things we need to believe, there are two bookends between which everything else may be found. Each is utterly indispensable to the other, and If we were to pull ...
and travelled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb.” ...
In the opening paragraphs of his new book, Deep Incarnation, Australian theologian Denis Edwards lays out a serious, two-pronged problem currently facing the Christian tradition. On the one hand, ...
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Leaving aside the wonderful scent of freshly cut grass, the real pleasure in looking after one’s own lawn lies in the fact that, for at least another week or so, one has drawn the line on chaos, on ...