If you are a teacher or catechist, how do you invite students to ponder the nature of theological learning?
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Author: Timothy Brunk
Timothy Brunk is associate professor of theology at Villanova University. He teaches courses in sacramental theology and in pastoral care of the sick. His major research focus at present is the interplay of consumer culture and sacramental worship. A number of articles on the topic are in print and a book is in the works.
Praying and Singing During a Church Crisis
I am wondering how worship addressed or did not address the abuse in Pennsylvania, apart from the homily.
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Humility and Worship
Humility as a precondition for worship and as contributing factor to participation in worship can remind us all that liturgy and life form a closed circuit and yet a circuit that opens to the in-breaking of the kingdom of God.
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Liturgy and Culture
The Philadelphia Liturgical Institute is seeks to understand how local congregations experience the relationship between liturgy and culture .
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A Wedding Mass
The homilist addressed the soon-to-be-married couple, telling them that in each other they have found “the cause of and the work of your salvation.” The phrase struck me as a fine way to characterize marriage.
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Alleluia*!
Do our liturgies celebrate a joy that is sober? Do they reflect a realism that is infused with hope?
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Receiving in the Hand: A Meditation
What receiving Communion in the hand has meant to me lately.
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Keeping Vigil in Advent
God has offered Godself to humanity in Jesus. The appropriate return-gift is a life offered to God: a life of compassion, forgiveness, and promotion of justice. These are the themes to ponder in Advent.
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The Shepherd in Sutherland Springs
“Tell them it’s good to see them in God’s house this morning.”
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Celebrating One Baptism in Christ
Catholics and Baptists, Lutherans and Episcopalians, Orthodox and Presbyterians, Methodists and members of the United Church of Christ gathered around a font given by Lutherans to Episcopalians for use in the Episcopal Cathedral.
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