"We are persuaded that there is no other guide and leader to the Father than the Holy Spirit, just as there is no other way than Christ; and that there is no grace from God save the Holy Spirit.  Grace is itself the power and action of the Spirit: through grace God the Father, in the Son, accomplis...

"Genuine love between persons is probably less common than one thinks, although most people think they have had some share in it and that they really possess it for brief moments. But it may well be as rare as great works of art, which tower here and there above the mass of what masquerades as art. ...

To submerge the self mystically in the dying torments of the crucified Jesus would mean giving these torments eternal validity if the submergence were not bound up with a hidden, inner, joyful exaltation over the risen and transfigured Christ.  A theology of the cross without the resurrection is he...

A friend sent this article by Wendell Berry the other day and said it was worth the read, he is right. The article looks at how our insatiable desire for more not only has adverse effects on our lives and economy but also on our environment. This limitlessness that’s rooted in an Englightenmen...

For all seek their own interests, and not those of Jesus Christ. -- Philippians 2:21 "It is impossible that the man who is devoted to self, should apply himself to the interests of the Church . . . For you must give up your own right if you would discharge your duty: a regard to your own interests m...

I haven't updated the blog recently so I thought that I would drop a line to let everyone know why I have been dark for the last 2 months. I am abnormally busy this summer. I am working between 20-30 hrs a week at Starbucks, I am taking 8 credits of class this summer, I am working 30+ hrs a week as ...

This album has been a blessing recently. Below I've supplied the lyrics to one of my favorite songs along with a favorite selection from the Institutes that help to focus my thoughts on Sunday mornings. " . . . By a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of hi...

Anne Primavesi is a feminist/ecological/radical theologian. On 23rd February this year, she presented a talk to the SCM conference. I’ve been transcribing it so that I can put bits in Movement. It was a really long talk, and very little of it is making into the magazine. But these, I thought, ...

All Christians should do everything in their power to be discipled by dead dudes. For one thing, they're dead; they've completed their race and will not fall into any scandals or let you down in the future in any way. Their lives are a completed testimony to God's grace in their lives. The latest de...

John Bunyan, who spent 12 years in prison for refusing to stop preaching (he also had a blind daughter), author of Pilgrim's Progress says: "May we try to escape? Thou mayest do in this as it is in thy heart. If it is in thy heart to fly, fly; if it be in thy heart to stand, stand. Any thing but a d...