An Average Ministry

One of the things I’ve found in my limited experience of trying to organize mercy ministry and outreach within a church setting is that people often want to go directly to the most extreme.  To really do mercy ministry means driving downtown to the homeless shelter, working with addicts, and dealing with spousal abuse victims.  [...]

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A Post-Protestant Model

Perhaps the biggest difficulty facing a catholic Christian at the beginning of the third millennium is denominationalism. This isn’t simply a protestant model, though I’m certainly working from within that tradition. No, there are plenty of “Traditionalist Catholics” that drive an hour to find their Latin Mass. They pass through a few [...]

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Liturgy, Regimentation, and the AM

This semester I’m taking a seminar class on the first three chapters of Genesis. The goal is to thoroughly learn the text and come to a better understanding of what the Bible is trying to show us in these passages. Our professor has, unfortunately, bought into the framework interpretation of creation, and so [...]

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