eucharist
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Jesus Remembers and Feeds the Forgotten
Thanksgiving is weeks away, and food banks are in crisis mode as record numbers of families face the effects of delayed SNAP benefits, rising cost of living, a government shutdown, and an uncertain economy. More than 40 million people rely on… Continue reading
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7 Being the Number of Wholeness and Completeness
Fast forward many years, and I discover to my utter bemusement that not only do I have an allergy to alcohol, but also, I am made ill by consuming gluten. Whilst initially disconcerted, I consoled myself by thinking God must… Continue reading
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Open Eucharist: a Habitual Binding of God?
I do not believe that as a priest, I should be in the business of binding the profligate abundance of God to a particular linear, cognitive, or traditional process. As a priest, I bind what I see before me, the… Continue reading
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Learning from History: What Can We Do Without the Eucharist?
One of the historical examples that we can look to during this time is the community around the nuns at Port-Royal in seventeenth-century France. Continue reading
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Modern-Day Jansenists… Online?
But what interests me in all this is the way that the internet has allowed us to get so involved in other people’s business and to judge what they do, which is exactly the tendency that Sr. Theresa critiques in… Continue reading
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Bread and Cup, Bodies and Abuse
I spend a good bit of time listening to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse reflect on ways that the worship and theology of their faith communities impacted their experience of abuse, its traumatic consequences, and their subsequent ability to… Continue reading
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A Trophy or a Drug? Sex and the Eucharist in Pope Francis’s Pastoral Letter on the Family
In the contemporary Catholic church, debates about sexual ethics often underlie debates about the Eucharist and vice versa. No wonder then that the pope’s recent pastoral letter, Amoris Laetitia–a document that focuses explicitly on whether certain sexual sinners should be allowed… Continue reading
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Is There A Place For Women at Our Lord’s Table? Some Questions for Ross Douthat
In a New York Times blog post today, Ross Douthat takes a break from lobbing accusations of corruption and conspiracy at Pope Francis to explain anew his belief that the church cannot change the way it relates to lesbians and gays,… Continue reading
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Fragile Repentances
Every Orthodox person who loves someone of the same sex risks hearing the following: “I can no longer offer you the Eucharist. While I cannot tell you to leave this parish, I would prefer you no longer attend.” Few words… Continue reading