Local Churches and the ‘Halo Effect’
RealClearReligion has become a starting point for my day, and I’m honored to have this week’s commentary linked in today’s morning edition, “Local Churches Hard Hit as Recession Spreads.” The link...
View ArticleMinistries of Common and Special Grace
Should the President of the United States be seen as theologian-in-chief? That might be one way to understand Bryan Fischer’s claim that “we are in fact choosing a minister when we select a president.”...
View ArticleSergius Bulgakov’s “Religious Materialism” and Spiritual Hope
Shrine with relic of St. Dimitry of Rostov in Spaso-Yakovlevsky abbey in Rostov. Source: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress). Wikimedia Commons. Yesterday in First...
View ArticleUnseen wonders: Man’s creative power and the sacramentality of nature
When I lived in Rome I taught a religious education class for a year, preparing kids for their first Communion. When they found out I was American, some of them were confused as to why I would come all...
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