If you forget the past you are not really doomed to repeat it. However, remembering the right things from past can help you find wisdom, live in gratitude, and avoid certain things that would make you look like a doofus. One English monk who knew this, and helped the church remember its past for centuries after his death was “The Venerable […]
“Be a Real Christian”: Charge to the Graduating Class, 2014
As you leave seminary behind, as you move into your calling as servants of Christ, please, I beg you, take care what you aim for. Think hard about the goal, the target at which you are aiming your life. You want goals for your work and your ministry of course, but think, more importantly, about the […]
How to Really Enjoy Your Summer Vacation: Advice from a Fourth Century Monk
Did you get to the end of vacation last year and wonder why you were disappointed? Big expectations of adventure and rest swallowed up by Angry Birds and email? Time think ahead, even though Memorial Day is weeks away. Classes are over for the semester (though a two-week Doctor of Ministry intensive is looming). Time to think about Summer before […]
How Can the Gospel be Good News Again? St. Athanasius of Alexandria
We Christians proclaim “the gospel.” The word means “good news.” What happens when what we tell the world sounds old and worn — not “news” at all. Worse still, what happens when what we say doesn’t actually sound “good” to people? Sometimes looking away from our tracts and truisms, looking back to what Christians used to […]
St. Catherine of Siena, Role Model for Christian Women. Men Too.
April 29 was a sad day if you were in Rome in 1380. A woman who had changed the world died. Who was Catherine of Siena? Let me tell you three very cool things about her. First, Catherine was eager to listen to Jesus. As a child she began having visions of Jesus, and her loving […]
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