What is Otherwise Orthodox?
Theology, like politics, is often very polarized. You’re either a liberal or a conservative, a progressive or a traditionalist, orthodox or heretic. Besides the problems of tribalism (us against them)...
View ArticleI’m a Heretic, Not a Free Thinker
I could be wrong, but it seems that most people hold non-orthodox positions because they have been overly influenced by modernity. They don’t believe in the supernatural stuff (Virgin Birth, miracles...
View ArticleWhy I believe in Purgatory
Purgatory is one of those not-very-nice, unscientific, anti-modernist ideas. IF the subject ever comes around liberal Christians (it hardly ever does), it seems like the response is something like, “No...
View ArticleHeterodoxy requires humility
If you hope that other people (the hierarchy, the conservatives, the whoever) will open their hearts and minds enough to accept that they might be wrong about some aspect of their faith, you must...
View ArticleNothing New Under the Sun?
In discussing some of my heretical positions with a(n at least equally heretical, but he wouldn’t say so) conservative “Anglican” (ACNA) priest recently, a point of discussion became hinged on whether...
View ArticleThe Truth Does Not Change
If the truth had changed, your life would have lost its unity. The truth has not changed, but you have grown to fuller understanding of it, to larger capacity of receiving and transmitting it....
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Candlemas: Presentation of the Lord
Today is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as “Candlemas,” because of the use of a candle-lit procession connected with the feast...
View ArticleMy Tombstone
This is what I would like on my tombstone. The end of Psalm 22, from the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer. To Him alone all who sleep in the earth bow down in worship; all who go down to the dust...
View ArticleOn Church History
Whene’er we look, with shaded eyes at long-since follies, dead men’s lies, How simple yet the judgments be what ease put them to dispatch we. “Filoque? Ha!” the modern shrieks “Is this of what the...
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