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An Unworkable Theology
It is increasingly difficult to escape the fact that mainline Protestantism is in a state of disintegration. As attendance declines, internal divisions increase. Take, for instance, the situation of...
The Episcopalian Preference
On August 5, 2003, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), following initial action by the House of Deputies of ECUSA’s General Convention, gave its consent...
Sex and the Single Life
What is it that Christians ought to say and do about the issue of sexual relations between single people? This question currently presses most painfully upon the life of...
To Students of Divinity: A Convocation Address
People who talk overmuch about beginning a new phase of life often appear quite foolish. After all, we rarely know until much later the meaning of our past and...
Undertakings and Promises
For Christians, as for everyone else, the topic of sexual ethics is today one of widespread confusion, contention, and uncertainty. In this essay I propose to deal with the...
Authority in the Church: Excavations Among the Ruins
Authority is an issue that occupies a central place in current ecumenical discussion among the churches and it is one of enormous social and political importance as well. Accordingly,...
