There is always an ecumenical energy that alternatingly baffles, engages, entertains, or inspires…
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Category: Ecumenism
The Female Diaconate? Issues East and West
In the modern period, the question of ordaining women as deacons (again) in the Roman Catholic Church was raised as early as Vatican II, some fifty plus years ago. In the Orthodox world, this question is over a hundred years old…
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Newest Issue of Liturgy: Confession & Reconciliation
From my Introduction to the first issue of Liturgy for 2019, which I had the pleasure of guest-editing:
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Baptist Real Presence?
A symbol is never merely, is it?
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Psalms, not Walls
Regardless of what side of the “wall” you find yourself on, I have a feeling many of us are dismayed by the lack of conversation and communion which we are experiencing.
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Celebrating Holy Supper
The Holy Supper has allowed me to experience the birth of Christ as an event that we can participate in today, continuing to give birth to Christ in our own lives.
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Why I Don’t Believe in Reformation Sunday
To highlight the Protestant reformation keeps the focus on our differences, rather than our similarities.
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East Meets West in Liturgy
The reform of the liturgy after Vatican II is also debated within some Orthodox circles.
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27 September 2018: The Final Session of the Twin Cities “Worship Dialogue”
I was left with conflicting emotions as we marked the conclusion of this fruitful collaboration.
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St. Benedict’s Raven
A sacramental understanding of the church is necessary to any contemporary reform movement because without it we cannot separate loyalty to the institution from fidelity to Christ, even when those institutions become poisonous.
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Making Sense of Autocephaly in the Ukrainian Church
The history of the autocephalous movement in the Ukrainian Church is marked by polemics and a recurring cycle of the blame game.
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