Self-Help Group or Alien Life Form? In the Old Testament and the New Testament the God we worship declares himself to be the God of people who lived thousands of years ago. These are people for whom we have the highest regard, but we know them only through the witness of other people. He is [...]
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SELF-HELP GROUP? I
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Liturgical Piety II
Prayer as Athletics In basketball season we get excited over our favorite university. The colors come out, we “Google” the schedule and our collective blood pressure goes up – things get very personal. One basketball coach refers to his school’s student body as the team’s sixth player. But the fact of the matter is [...]
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The Bride of Christ II
A BRIDE, A MOTHER, A HOME AND A HEARTH According to the Church Fathers one can only have God as Father by having the Church as Mother. As our Mother she makes a home for us, which, by the grace of God, is “a haven of blessing and of peace (BCP 303).” Holy Mother Church [...]
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The Bride of Christ I
A BRIDE, A MOTHER, A HOME AND A HEARTH The image of the Church as the Bride of Christ calls attention to relations: our relation to God and our relation to one another. In the Form of Solemnization of Matrimony on page 303, the BCP declares that Christian matrimony is a shared state of being [...]
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