Can Lay People “Do” Sacraments?

I love my church!   
Just when you think you’ve got her all figured out, warts and all, she comes up with something so right…
A couple weeks ago I posted “Calling All Pastors – Need Answers To Question“.  All the folks who responded (thank you all!) came down on the side of “yes” – if we believe in the [...]

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10-20-30 Virus

I’ve been tagged by Aaron over on The Colorful Journey!
Quick: What were you doing Ten, Twenty, Thirty years ago?
10 years ago: Pretty much what I’m doing now, apart from marriage and seminary (OK I guess there have been some changes, LOL!)  10 years ago I was just returning from a trip to England, was living [...]

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Christianity and Presidential Politics

I don’t — and won’t — often post about politics on this blog, because I think as a Christian I need to be about God’s business first and the world’s business second.  But having said that, I also believe it’s important for Christians of every stripe to be aware of political issues and party platforms and the [...]

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Calling All Pastors — Need Answers to Question

The “priesthood of all believers” — what does this mean to the church you work for?  To you personally? 
The question was inspired by comments on another post which can be found here.  More specifically, the question is: if the church teaches the concept of “the priesthood of believers”, why do most churches say laypeople cannot perform [...]

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Who Has Believed Our Message?

Worldwide Communion was this past Sunday, and in keeping with it I shared these thoughts with my Adult Ed class at church…
What does communion mean to you?  What do you think about when you’re taking it?  Is it a time of reflection? of confession? of remembrance? of cleansing from sin?
All these things are worthwhile and [...]

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Putting the Horse Before the Cart

“The Church did not develop its creed and literature and then, one day, with everything neatly packaged and ready, begin to evangelize.  Rather… members of the early Church began to “make disciples”.  Through that process they developed a creed and literature…”
- Reclaiming the Great Commission, C. Payne & H. Beazley
Keeping the main thing the main [...]

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Episcopalians from an Irish Point of View

Bishop Harold Miller of the Church of Ireland last month wrote an excellent and heartfelt article about his visits to Episcopal churches while on sabbatical in the USA.  The full text of his article can be found here.  Some pertinent quotes:
“…it is important to note that there really is the beginning of a new kind [...]

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Personal Update

Hello all – Just wanted to post a quick update since I’ve been slacking off the blog lately.  I hope to be posting more interesting stuff very soon.  In the meantime – I’m fast approaching the middle of the first term at seminary (thank goodness we have no midterm exams, just papers to write!) and I [...]

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