Posts by evelynunderhill

I will resume Ruminations eventually, but this summer I have been overwhelmed with 1) our national agony and 2) preparing a new book: The Once and Future Season: Sermons and Essays for Advent (Eerdmans). When I finish, I will resume Ruminations.In the meantime you can check me out on Twitter @flemingrutThank you so very much for your interest.Lord, have merc […]

Matthew S.C. Olver's assessment of Ruth A. Meyers's "revised edition" of Leonel Mitchell's seminal Praying Shapes Believing heads right into the issues which make me an opponent of the push to "revise" the prayer book. Now, Mitchell having been dead this past half-decade, and thus not in a position to take exception to this […]

Much of the literature on the fundamentalist – modernist controversy of the 1920’s and 30’s is described as the struggle of fundamentalists against modernity — its science, its ways of thinking, approaches to Scripture, and, in particular, the theory of evolution. But what we don’t talk about very much is the way in which the […]

Can you imagine what our congregations would be like if we kept God's words in our hearts? If we taught our children about God's great love for us as revealed in the scriptures? If we publicly proclaimed the scriptures?

Crusty flopped down on the couch after lunch on Sunday, ready for The Clergy Nap.  In preparation for this weekly event, Crusty likes to do something that stops his mind from racing from the events of the morning and allows him to settle down.  Since COD is easily whipped into a self-righteous fury, he was not looking for something to stoke his readily induc […]

I think I’ve thought this out loud before, but it’s worth saying and pondering again… We have to recognize the reality that the church in America finds itself in. Our own church is shrinking.  The age-cohorts of clergy should be … Continue reading →

Inch Beach, with its breath-taking panoramic views and three miles of long sandy beach (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2017) Patrick Comerford As we drove from Killarney out onto the Dingle Peninsula earlier this week, our first stop was at Inch Beach, with its breath-taking panoramic views and three miles of long sandy beach.This world-class blue-flag beach […]

All you really need to know about this is that there is not a single Roman Catholic anywhere in it.