Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.