A few years ago I attended a Passion Play/Musical at a megachurch where I used to live. The play ended up being a sort of Cirque-du-Soleil performance of humanity from Adam and Eve to Jesus […]
Category: Jesus Christ
Good Friday: Assigning Blame for Jesus’ Death
On this, the saddest of days in the Christian calendar, I will cut to the chase. There are two claims that I wish to dispel. One, the Jews killed Jesus. Two, our sins killed Jesus. […]
Holy Thursday: Remembering Judaism in a Christian World
This evening will mark the official beginning of the Easter Triduum in the Catholic Church. The Triduum begins the evening of Holy/Maundy Thursday, extends through Good Friday, and ends on the evening of Easter Sunday. […]
Returning to the Camp
A reflection on the readings for the First Sunday of Lent “The one who bears the sore of leprosy shall keep his garments rent and his head bare, and shall muffle his beard; he shall […]
Lent 2012
Reflections for Lent 2012 As part of our own Lenten observance, those of us here at Daily Theology are offering some reflections during this season on the main holidays, the Sundays, and our own experiences. […]
Being Catholic as a Response to God
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the widespread outrage against the Roman Catholic Church’s (mis)handling of sexual abuse cases. Over the past decade the fallout from the successive revelations of sin, cover-up, pride and […]
Broken Vessels
Perhaps it’s not by chance that brokenness is on my mind—after all, we are drawing close to the season of Lent. Yet it is the topic of Theological Shark Week that prods me to think […]
The Entangled Beauty of Ecumenism
On Christmas Eve I had the privilege of attending two Christmas services: a 4pm Evangelical Presbyterian Church service focused around children and an 8pm Roman Catholic Mass. Although the differences between the two services were […]
The Call of the Christmas Stable (Part 3 of 3)
Lord, may our eyes always be raised to you, so that when you call, we may respond at once. ~ from the Liturgy of the Hours Keeping night watch over their sheep, the shepherds would see […]
Waiting for a God Who Never Comes
Samuel Beckett’s play, Waiting for Godot, can lay claim a surplus of meaning. Ostensibly a narrative about two men waiting for the arrival of a third, one can find within its lines a discussion of […]
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