Sublime

But when this fullness is in the form of busyness, the congregation finds it hard to offer a moral horizon that encompasses fullness in the kingdom of God, participation in the life of the Trinity, and ministry to the world.

The biography of Jesus continues through us, through the church, even through—perhaps especially through—our adversity.

here at the far end of modernity, the concept of God is often just as obscure to those who want to believe as to those who want not to. Ours is in many ways a particularly unsubtle age.

theologians have been saying for a long time that we should conceive of Christian faith more as a way of life than as assent to a list of propositional assertions.

The church once helped people live the good life in the present (whether multigenerational or generational, the present was long enough for the good life to have content and be open to mystery—to have response and responsibility). Now the good life is lived in the future, not the present.

Andrew: The subtitle of your blog is “Our days are numbered. Passionately pursue a life of excellence.”

that.

Do we really believe that “it ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day”?