Words carry meaning. They communicate our thoughts and feelings, tell others about who we are and our relationship with them. The can be used to
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Category: Environment and Ecology
Liturgy and the οἰκουμένη
Are we promoting the recapitulation of all things in Christ?
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The Yale ISM Review: On Healing
What is healing about? How does it take place? What roles do prayer, liturgy, and the arts play in the process of healing? These are some of the questions raised and discussed in this issue.
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On Living with a “Green” Memento Mori
How do we confront our own finitude?
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The End of Frankincense?
N.B. this is a post about incense and not a Halloween-themed post on Frankenstein! During the 2017 Societas Liturgica conference in I was very impressed by the
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Is it time for chrism masses already? Revisiting the cultures of chrism
How the language of timing the liturgy and the composition of chrism takes on theologies of inculturation and christology.
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Creation, Day Seven: For God and Creation, a Day of Rest
What we need to live into, not least in this time of ecological emergency, is the reality of a larger, universal, planetary communion: by reason of our createdness, we are kin with everything that is created. Maybe keeping Sabbath is one way to begin to live into this vision.
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Creation, Day Six: Creativity, Hope, and Goodness
God chose not to stop with pterodactyls and turtles. God insisted on creating a mammal that not only had a mouth to feed, but a mouth that could talk back.
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Creation, Day Five: In the Name of Every Creature Under Heaven
What is happening is a sin against creation, not because we are passively threatening our own existence, but because creation has its own redemptive journey that intersects and is co-terminus with the human species.
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Creation, Day Four: The Rhythms of Life
Perhaps it is time to realize that we are truly made in the image of God the Organizer, and God the Rhythm-Giver.
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