Posts by evelynunderhill

The Living One Who Makes AliveFleming Rutledge at Princeton Theological Seminary, June 2018(all quotes are from CD I/2 unless otherwise noted)Almighty God, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual and without whose grace all wisdom is folly: grant, I beseech thee, that in this my undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withhe […]

So once again we have another run at GC towards normalization of communing the unbaptized, this time in the form of a study resolution. So the meat of the explanation begins with the observation that "many parishes in the Episcopal Church are currently practicing open communion," by which they mean opening it not just to the baptized who are not me […]

The Lord’s Prayer, revised for Moral Therapeutic Deism With thanks and apologies to Dorothy Sayers:   Our ungendered parent, You who dwell beyond time and space, Unnumbered are your names, Your new world order come, Our vision of your will be done, On earth, as it accords with our preferences.   Give us this day […]

We have a catechetical crisis in our church. Vast swaths of our laity and not a few clergy are unable to articulate even the most rudimentary understanding of either baptism or eucharist.

Well, friends, here is what nobody has been waiting for:  Crusty's General Convention Preview Extravanganza.  You may have noticed Crusty has been quiet for several months; some of that has to do with some other projects he has been working on, COD is hard at work on his next book, a research project on what we in North America can learn from Christians […]

I’m travelling this week, so the presentation is a little shorter and more audio-troubled than usual…

The Sylvester O’Halloran Footbridge spans the Abbey River close to its confluence with the River Shannon (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2018) Patrick Comerford On my way from Saint Mary’s Cathedral back to the bus to Askeaton earlier this week, I crossed through the Potato Market, which faces the West Door of the cathedral, and over the Sylvester O’Halloran […]

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