Essays &
Thoughts
New
Leadership
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The Problem
with the Church
There is no orthodoxy to return to — stasis ultimately destroys living faith. There is only an orthodoxy to which our faith and understanding must expand.
Until we are willing to recognize more mature ways of living out and expressing our faith, we will continue to alienate ourselves from each new generation and from our own children.
Greg Gorsuch · The Problem with the Church
In formation
02
Differentiated Unity
Acts 2 and the Trinity: why a community that cannot hold difference has not achieved unity, only uniformity.
Drafting
03
Beauty Will Save the World
Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, and indirect communication — on why Jesus so rarely spoke plainly.
Notes
04
Belonging Before Believing
What the order of the three B’s actually costs a church, and what it costs the people who never make it past the first one.
Drafting
05
Cruciform Metamorality
A theory of what makes Christ’s teaching metamoral, and why the shape of ethics, and of the universe, is a cross.
Proposed