Category: Theology

  • "Wholesome" Christianity

    What do you think about the word “wholesome?” Can a person be wholesome? What if someone mentioned that they wouldn’t…

  • Fourfold Benediction

    Here is the benediction we have been using the last couple of weeks at Theophilus: We have been washed in…

  • Thoughts on the Sacraments

    Some of my old acquaintances know that I’m in a different space now. If you knew me from school, or…

  • The Symbolism of Baptismal Vestments

    From Alexander Schmemann, Of Water and the Spirit, (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1974), p. 74-75. “We know already that the…

  • Nouwen quote on Eucharist

    Eucharist is recognition. It is the full realization that the one who takes, blesses, breaks, and gives is the One…

  • "Eucharist in the Youniverse"

    Len Sweet tweeted: @lensweet Some churches now offer hosts that are round, triangular, square, wholemeal, white, gluten free, low fibre,…

  • Sermon on Luke 3:7-18 (Advent 3 C)

    Zephaniah 3:14-20: 14Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!…

  • Reading the Bible with the Church Fathers

    From Ancient Evangelical Future… 1. The New Testament authors clearly applied Old Testament texts in ways that departed seriously from…

  • Greater Than Putting Flowers on a Grave

    From the Ekklesia Project: And while a decoration of a grave may dwell on our loss, All Saints’ Day sharpens…

  • Mystery – by Charlie Hall

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A69Hj3ISMSo This is one of the most creative attempts at a worship music video I’ve seen in a while. The…