Sarx

REW Made a cool post today over at BuffaloRising, talking about the Kingdom of God and wondering how it’s possible or practical in the world that we live in. It tripped me up (as I tweeted to him, post haste) because it seems to assume that we’re supposed to be working on the world. The [...]

T’S THAT Time of year again: July the 17th, or, possibly, the 4th. July 14th, too. Hither and thither you’ll find sundry pious types (mostly RCs and EOs) lamenting the fall of the Russian and French Monarchy – usually with true reports of the atrocities that followed the fall of those kings. The death of [...]

HE ER Epistle for today, (Ephesians 3:8-21) has this extraordinary line in it: …through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places… The traditional reading is to hear “principalities and powers” as something about angels, etc. But the terms, themselves are, exactly, [...]