The Catechism moves from Christ as Icon of God to talking about his being born of a virgin. It is necessary to look at this doctrine often neglected and uncomfortable for many modern Christians to see the importance of the Virgin Birth not to indicate disgust at sexuality, but to see the radicality of the new humanity pioneered by Christ.

The section on God the Son begins with an explanation of how Jesus is the perfect icon or image of God and how this reveals God’s character as above all love. This post turns to how this is profoundly true and deceptively simple in its explanation.

The final two questions of the section from the 1979 Catechism offer greater insight into the purpose of this first section on human nature. In particular, the final question implies both the effects of Sin on our knowledge of God as well as how God can be known by humans under the conditions of Sin.

Here begins a series on each of the questions from the catechism from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. This first post gives a little background on the hope of the series and then an overview of catechisms in general.

Worship is hard in the stimulation saturated world we live in. But this, and the possibility of boredom it entails, is precisely why it’s so important for us to attend to have our desires reformed so that we can be disposed to the worship of God—because that’s a lot of what our hope is oriented toward.

One of the problems of the mainline church is it all too often fails to have a visual identity that does justice to the content of its proclamation. Here are a few tips on how to (relatively) easily fix that.