Today’s Lectionary Reading
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buri...
Today's Advent Reading:
USCCB - December 4th
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Today we light two purple candles of our Advent wreath, marking the Second Sunday of this liturgical season de...
Despite having been a Christian for a decade, I am sad to admit that I have never seriously pondered the meaning and significance of the two Sacraments of P...
I enjoy the Bourne Identity, Supremacy, and Ultimatum movie trilogy because the big story arc deals with the issue of identity. Fittingly, the story begins and ...
Break, blow, burn and make me new
- John Donne, Holy Sonnet: Batter my heart
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mighti...
A dear friend of mine is getting baptized this Sunday, and as a rebirthday present I wrote her this piece. Please don't take it seriously. It is a reminder, if ...
I originally wasn't planning on writing multiple posts about infant baptism, but Richard Beck's kindly saying that he was eager to follow my thoughts on the m...
Given all the recent brouhaha about baptism on The Fish Tank (for which I am largely responsible), a friend of mine expressed her concern with the lack of bro...
For the most recent post in this ongoing series, see here.
JOSEPH
In this post, I wanted to highlight a couple specific strands of what the NT teaches about s...
I was spurred by the recent debate about baptism on the Fish Tank to think in more general terms about how to connect spiritual movements—repentance, salvation,...
