We must become actual members of a real community constituted by the real and present image of God as uniquely lord, and the real and present image of mankind as subject uniquely to God. Jesus Christ, very God and very man, is the double-representative around whom such a community has come into being. - Oliver O'Donovan, Common Objects of Love
God's Promise Renewed - Rev. Ryan McCormick | 11.19.23
"It is not enough to leave Egypt, one must also enter the Promised Land." - St. John Chrysostom, 4th Century Archbishop of Constantinople (cited in Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer)
Rebellion & Remembrance - Dr. Cyndi Parker | 11.12.23
We come to church with our fragile identities, often enough constructed over against each other. We come as people whose sense of self is sometimes grounded in competition, striving for superiority or struggling with a sense of inferiority. Even our loves may contain knots of rivalry or reticence. We begin by invoking the Triune God, a home in which we may flourish and find happiness, liberated from the need to fight for our identity, to justify our existence, at ease in the uncompetitive and equal love of the Father and the Son, which is the Holy Spirit. - Timothy Radcliffe, Why Go to Church?