Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.

That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall

We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.

I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.