In my view it is time to properly give place to prophetic ways the Spirit uses Scriptures precisely out of their original context but with staggering accuracy and insight in the contemporary context…
Our Bodies as Microbial Communities: Scientific and Theological Reflections
There may be as many as 39 trillion microbes living on and in us. That means we carry more microbial cells than we do human cells! These microbes cover nearly every surface of the human body that is exposed to the outside world.
Beauty, Lust, and the Wholly Other
Song of Songs enumerates this ‘otherness’ in the litanies of physical beauty and the poetic metaphors and similes used to describe them.
“Die Before You Die”: C.S. Lewis and Cruciformity
What I’ve found is that at the centre of C.S. Lewis’ spiritual theology as we see it in his letters, his fiction, his apologetic work, and his literary criticism, is an understanding of cruciformity…
Households of Resistance and Hope
For years now David has focused on households as sheep pens, identifying “people of peace” as Jesus directed in Luke 10. We call these “households in transformation”, whose hosts welcome Jesus’ sent ones–offering hospitality, receiving prayer for healing and the message shared about Jesus’ transforming love.
Seen and Acknowledged
“What’s your name?” I asked. “Sean” which he pronounced seen. I then told him that God notices him all the time and knows his pain.
“Trampling Down Death by Death”: Reflections on the Orthodox Resurrection Service
I shall never forget the beauty, wonder and spiritual culture shock the first time I experienced an Orthodox Resurrection service. It was 2006 and my new friend, Archbishop (ret.) Lazar had invited me to join their parish for the midnight service, the traditional Paschal liturgy, proclaiming and celebrating Christ’s victorious death and resurrection.