To Think God as Love

God is always at work, but that work is not always visible. God is always at work, but sometimes the world’s processes go with the grain of his final purpose and sometimes they resist. But if certain things came together in the world at this or that moment, the ‘flow’ would be easier and more [...]

‘Being baptized is being immersed in Jesus Christ, going into the depth of Jesus Christ, and rising from that depth with his life wrapped around us in the Holy Spirit. And being immersed in Christ, breathing his breath, living with his life, is having first and foremost a share of his relationship with the one [...]

“Marx long ago observed the way in which unbridled capitalism became a kind of mythology, ascribing reality, power and agency to things that had no life in themselves; he was right about that, if about little else. And ascribing independent reality to what you have in fact made yourself is a perfect definition of what [...]

Here is the continuation of their discussion.  PP: Which leads us to Mel Gibson. Have you seen that film? RW: I haven’t seen it. PP: Nor have I, so we can talk about it! That’s all right. RW: We’re allowed opinions without the constraints of reality! RB: He is presumably selling his film on the basis that it is very [...]

The following is a excerpted from a 2004 exchange between Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Philip Pullman, the renowned atheist and novelist. In this bit of the discussion, they explore the relation of religious experience to various literary media. In the course of the conversation, Williams uncovers in a delightful and illuminating way the [...]

“What you learn, I think, after absorbing a really serious piece of fiction, is not a message. Your world has expanded, your world has enlarged at the end of it, and the more a writer focuses on message, the less expansion there’ll be. I think that’s why sometimes the most successful, ‘Christian’ fiction is written [...]

Thus Eucharist and Scripture need to be held together if we are to have an adequate theology of either. The Eucharist is the primary locus of the listening Church, the place where it shows itself to be there in response to the call of God; and the Scripture that embodies that call has to be [...]

When we confess  the church as the “body of Christ” we are not merely drawing an analogy, though as we see in St Paul (1 Cor 12:12-30) this is acceptable, too. We’re not saying (only) that the church functions organically, like a human body does.  We’re saying that the church is in some sense Christ’s [...]

This is the good news of Easter:  But the goodness of the resurrection news is most evident for those who have lost people they love to any sort of incomprehensible evil – the tragedies of dementia, the apparent meaninglessness of accident, the horrors of violence or injustice.

 from Halden.