In particular, we've organized the site around parish resources related to Liturgy, Education, Spiritual Direction, and Community. For example, we have essays detailing our parish's Sacred Music and Arts Camp (aka "SMAC," aka our version of VBS), our parish Agape meal, how we do youth and adult education, etc. -- as well as links to resources related to the seven sacraments and other liturgical services. We also link to useful podcasts and blogs, and we are maintaining our own occasional blog as well.
For a helpful introduction, you can listen to and read about the plenary talks given at our diocesan synod by Fr. Sean and me here.
So far, I've contributed a paper on youth ministry at All Saints and written a few short blog posts including one that briefly reflects on the one-year lectionary (with a link to a podcast that goes more in-depth).
Most recently, I wrote an essay that considers avenues of fruitful theological reflection on sexuality beyond the old same-sex-marriage debate. Here's the introduction:
Is there any fruitful ground left for theological debate around sexuality? The answer at first seems a definitive "no." The denominational landscape of American Christianity has been rent asunder in the past half-century, most fundamentally over questions related to same-sex marriage — and rent so definitively that no common ground exists any longer. The warring camps, it seems, share no spaces or institutions in which — or even over which — to argue. Perhaps such ground never really existed anyway. The breakup of jurisdictions and denominations happened more through open power struggles than genuine intellectual dispute. These power struggles continue in some quarters, of course, but the theological question of same-sex marriage — specifically, whether or not the biblical vision of marriage can be modified to include the institution called "same-sex marriage" — seems rather played out. Continuing Anglicans in particular may be tempted to think that affirming the impossibility of same-sex marriage — and women’s ordination — sufficiently clarifies our theology of sexuality.
As I read Wesley Hill's thoughtful review of Paul Griffiths's latest book, Christian Flesh, however, I was reminded of the various under-explored questions beyond the tired same-sex marriage debate. That debate has arguably obscured the distinctions and boundaries between sexual and non-sexual forms of human intimacy — for instance, the intimacy of a parent and child, between siblings, and among friends. Further, partisans on both sides have typically failed to think deeply enough about the nature of regeneration and redemption in relation to all forms of human sexuality.Read the rest here.
Just a final note: I posted the essay under the category of "Clery Education," though I do think the questions considered are potentially meaningful for any theologically informed Christian.
