Storytelling, media ecology, organizational management, leadership, theology, cities and social change. This is a place for interaction so if you have a thought, leave a comment or join me on Winter Conference 2010
Tomorrow morning I will board a plane to Greensboro, North Carolina where I join several thousand Anglicans in the Anglican Mission’s winter conference. Ten years ago Bishops Chuck Murphy and John Rodgers prophetically stepped out and created the Anglican Mission under the authority of Archbishop Kolini. If you want to read more about that story ...
Book of Common Prayer: Morning Prayer Explained
I have been asked by a few people how to pray with the Book of Common Prayer. Most recently my friend Paul from Philadelphia purchased it and asked me about it. I searched a bit for a website providing an easy to follow outline but I couldn’t find one, so I have taken on the ...
Anglican Saints….what?
Karl Barth: Originator of Hipster Fashion So today we celebrate the lives of Karl Barth and Thomas Merton. But what you say? Anglicans and Saints? Are you Protestant or Catholic? The Anglican church has a sort of hierarchy of feasts and fasts. There are Principal Feats (like Easter and Christmas), Other Feasts of our Lord ...
Mo(ve)ments and the Eucharist
Does this rightly describe the Eucharist moment? When we gather to re-enact the great salvation story? Chicago still tugs on my heart….
Doctrine and Ethos – the Anglican Church
“It is doubtful whether a Church without a recognizable, articulate doctrinal commitment can survive for long, unless it is merely content to be held together by some undefinable ‘ethos’ or by its ties to the establishment.”
-Nigel Atkinson, Church of England Priest
Community and Marriage: Mystery and Mission
For two years I lived in a community of 21 people: nine kids, three couples and six single people. I was the babysitter, human jungle-gym, little brother, older brother, uncle, son, drum teacher, baby-blesser, confidant and listener. Being raised in a single-parent home with a brother who is only 17 months younger, this community gave me experiences that I never would have had otherwise.
I left this community in May and will be joining a very different community this coming September. This time between communities has allowed me the space, and the grace, to reflect on the relationship between marriage and community.
Vanhoozer is Anglican: He is Just Fooling Himself…
What does kissing, sacramental theology and illocutionary acts have to do with each other? Wouldn’t you like to know…
Anglican Ordination
Anglican ordination is a confusing thing in general. Add to that the current complexity of the Anglican world and you get a multi-headed beast. I am finishing up my time in the ordination process (October 25th) through the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA), under Archbishop Kolini of the Anglican Church of Rwanda. It has been a multi-year process full of revisions to the ordination process, but I know there is little information out there about what really happens, so I hope this post can shed some light on the issue.
Boston Anglican Mission
Friends, I have some very exciting news. A group of us will be launching an evening prayer service in Boston this fall. It will officially be a mission of the Anglican Mission in the Americas, a missionary movement from Rwanda to America. Which is who I am being ordained with. Basically this is a plant ...
A Missional, Evangelical, Anglican Group Blog….Any Takers?
So here is the idea. There are a number of Anglican blogs that exist. Some of them are purposed in reporting the latest news within the Global Communion, like Titus One Nine or Father Jake Stops the World. Then there are a myriad of blogs that simply voice their own opinion on Anglicanism and theology ...
