Theology is done on the knees in prayer, in the church in worship, behind the desk at study. But, it is also done in community -- in coffee shops, at work, around the dinner table. Theology is written in scholarly texts, spiritual classics, liturgies. But it is also scribbled on napkins, envelopes, and random scraps of paper. Coffee shop, napkin thought theology is all you will find here -- hardly worthy of the name theology at all, more question than answer, often done in real time -- yet done for the glory of God. May His blessing be upon those who read and His mercy upon this sinner who writes.

06 March 2014

Ash Wednesday

Save for Easter alone, Ash Wednesday is the most glorious and awful of the Church's holy days, for on it humans glimpse for a brief moment what angels behold always with wonder and demons with dread: the Church visible in its vast array, signed and sealed with the victorious and life-giving cross of Christ -- the Church throughout time and space marching on its triumphal pilgrimage toward the heavenly city, marching relentlessly under the banner of the Lamb who was slain and who yet lives. Yes, dust we are and to dust we shall return. But that very dust is signed with the cross and will rise again in the name of Christ.
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