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On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner spoke his final words, and these words later became
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On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner spoke his final words, and these words later became
While cloistered away in our apartment on Bellevue, I have been spending some time, among
Perhaps the first thing is to grieve. Before we get angry about the death of
Psalm 30, 32, 42, 43 • Haggai 2:1-19 • Matthew 24:1-14 Catholicity: the word comes
This fall, Sowing Holy Question will explore questions of stewardship, reflecting theologically on practical decisions about
Psalm 30, 32, 42, 43 • Isaiah 8:1–15 • Luke 22:31–38 Something has changed in
This past summer, I began exploring the Enneagram, a grid of personality/spirituality types you generally see depicted in that vaguely satanic-looking nine-point star within a circle. I’ve heard about it from students and colleagues over the years, and I decided it was time to see for myself. I read Chistopher Heurtz’s helpful book The […]
<<Return to Advent Meditations page Psalm 38; 119:25-48; Amos 8:1-14; Matt. 23:1-12; Rev. 1:17-2:7 “He
C.S. Lewis once said that if we could really see another person—any other person—as
Psalm 61, 62; Isaiah 11:1-9; John 5:30-47 Listen to the author read their meditation
I’m not sure if one can win a prize for guessing the Oxford English Dictionary’s
This talk was presented as a part of the seminary’s series of lectures on mystics
Wednesday – December 9 Psalm 38; Amos 8:1-14; Matthew 23:1-12 Listen to the author
Human labor is not a commodity. Recent articles on “Ferguson, One Year Out,” which I was reading
What is an argument? “Argument is an intellectual process,” says a frustrated client at the
A summary of a paper presented to the Central Texas Colloquium on Religion
The Central Texas Colloquium on Religion began five years ago as a celebration of the many scholarly conversations that move around under the umbrella of religious studies. It will come as no surprise to those who know me that I think theology has a place under that umbrella too. Just as theology is something less than it could be when it lacks the methods of textual analysis, historiography, and sociology, religious studies is prone to a certain blindness without the input of theology.
Luke 14:25-33
Eight years ago almost to the day, when I was a new interim theology professor at SSW, I stood in this pulpit and preached my very first sermon in Christ Chapel. It was 2 days after we sent George W Bush back to the White House for 4 more years, and 3 or 4 days after the Lambeth Commission released the Windsor Report, giving a theological and ecclesiastical response to the controversies in the Episcopal Church surrounding human sexuality.
"Sophia and My Neighbor's Van: A Violent Confrontation," a sermon by Dr. Anthony Baker, assistant professor of Systematic Theology, given on September 17, 2009, in Christ Chapel
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