I’m still working my way through it, but this essay by N.T. Wright on scriptural authority is so good I’m having trouble deciding what to excerpt for you. But here is an exceptionally good (and rather large) nugget: Let me offer you a possible model, which is not in fact simply an illustration but actually [...]

Tags: N.T. Wright, Nota Bene, Scripture, Theology

I’ve already added it to the list of links on the right, under Resources, but I wanted to specifically draw your attention to a site I was shown today: Cradle of Prayer. The website is posting daily professional recordings of the Anglican lectionary. They are the Morning and Evening Prayer services from the 1928 Book [...]

Tags: Anglicanism, Book of Common Prayer, Liturgy

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through [...]

Tags: Anglicanism, Christianity, Lent

Good article from the Atlantic. Some choice excerpts: Many of today’s young adults seem temperamentally unprepared for the circumstances in which they now find themselves. Jean Twenge, an associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University, has carefully compared the attitudes of today’s young adults to those of previous generations when they were the [...]

Tags: Culture, Economics