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2012-06-20T12:58:51-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality: An Introduction

Last updated on: June 20, 2012 at 12:58 pm By K. Mulhern

Trinitarian spirituality? What does that mean? And this? What does this mean? “The Trinity is the space in which Christian life takes place.” Of course, we’re all for the Trinity. Whatever that means. We get a sermon on it once a year (in the Anglican tradition), on Trinity Sunday (which falls on 3 June this year). Most of these sermons gently and respectfully work their way around actual teaching about the Trinity—as though it were some kind of large... Read more

Trinitarian Spirituality: a series

2012-04-11T14:42:00-06:00

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The Voice of Reasonable Ethics?

Last updated on: April 11, 2012 at 2:42 pm By K. Mulhern

It’s not hard to write off the extremists as crazies. All of them. They’re the ones who live in obscure areas of the world and whose authenticity is determined by some personal charisma with a handful of social dropouts. So when you go to an article like this one, addressing the conclusions of “a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford,” your rational side can kick in and you can begin to feel a certain comfort with the mainstream cultural... Read more

Children and Parenting

2012-03-01T15:32:05-07:00

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Fallen Threads I Will Not Search For

Last updated on: March 1, 2012 at 3:32 pm By K. Mulhern

I HATE losing things. We all do, of course. Such losses are in turn inconvenient (keys?), tragic (a mother’s ring?), irritating (a grocery list?), panic-inducing (a passport?), and costly (a credit card?). And sometimes it seems that there are so many moving parts in life that we’re all being driven to become OCD, “checkers,” making sure all the important pieces are in place—in the purse, in the car, in the briefcase, in the pocket, in the desk drawer, in... Read more

2015-04-03T16:39:06-06:00

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The Vanities of Lent

Last updated on: April 3, 2015 at 4:39 pm By K. Mulhern

“We urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.” (2 Cor. 6.1) As I sat in yesterday’s Ash Wednesday service, listening to the great and profound readings associated with that day—Joel’s prophetic thunder; Jesus’ call to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving; David’s remorseful song—it was this simple message that struck me. Do not receive the grace of the Lord in vain. How blithe we are about receiving grace. It pours over us in a measureless flow, and we happily... Read more

2011-10-04T17:00:15-06:00

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Sin, History, and the False Self

Last updated on: October 4, 2011 at 5:00 pm By K. Mulhern

God doesn’t give us much time to enjoy Eden. Two chapters of wonder and creative power and beauty, and then over 1,000 chapters of life east of Eden. And that cherubim with the flaming sword meant to guard the gates? We’ve felt the heat of that sword at every turn. I’ve been pondering my ancestral parents, Adam and Eve, and the gift that keeps on giving – sin. Not a word that’s quick to be used any more, mainly because... Read more

2012-04-11T14:44:22-06:00

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Politics, Christians, and the 3rd Commandment

Last updated on: April 11, 2012 at 2:44 pm By K. Mulhern

At the outset of the 2011 election campaigns, here’s another plea that Christians become aware of the ways we are divided by the waves of moral manipulation in the mouths of candidates of both parties. Will we find the paths of righteousness in campaign speeches? Methinks not. Nor does my fellow Episcopalian and Patheos columnist, Frederick Schmidt — professor at Perkins School of Theology — who writes: “…it saddens me to listen to my Christian friends talk about politics. It’s... Read more

2012-04-11T14:42:18-06:00

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Relics Writ Small

Last updated on: April 11, 2012 at 2:42 pm By K. Mulhern

At home in my dresser upstairs I have a wee yellow sock, about four inches long. Just one. Downstairs I have a drawer in the laundry room full of single socks, which, despite my husband’s indictment, do not lose their partners through any collusion on my part. Those socks are casualties of clothes-basket subterfuge, a mangled mêlée that always takes place in the dead of night when no one is looking. Those socks always retain some vestige of hope –... Read more

Children and Parenting

2015-04-03T16:39:43-06:00

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Is Despondency a Christian Value?

Last updated on: April 3, 2015 at 4:39 pm By K. Mulhern

Because I spend a lot of time reading and editing online articles on religion, and because we Americans are particularly sensitive to issues of public expressions of faith, and because the campaigning season is upon us, I also get a healthy dose of politics. The 2012 election is nearly 15 months away, and I’m already hanging my head in misery. Let me count the ways. You can go to my Facebook account and see that my Political Views are... Read more

2015-04-03T16:40:07-06:00

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Coexisting in Tyre and Sidon

Last updated on: April 3, 2015 at 4:40 pm By K. Mulhern

The lectionary reading for this coming Sunday is from the Gospel of Matthew, 15.21-28 – the faith of the Canaanite woman. On many of my readings over the years, all I could really think about in this short story is how apparently rude Jesus is to the poor woman. First he ignores her; then he dismisses her as ineligible for his mercy. Really. Is this any way for the Savior of all the world to behave? I’ve spent some... Read more

2011-08-08T16:37:41-06:00

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Rebuild My Church

Last updated on: August 8, 2011 at 4:37 pm By K. Mulhern

As many of you may know, my passion is the Church — its unity, its sanctity, its truth. I lament the state of the Church for a lot of reasons. Here is a visual lament, beautiful and mournful: Thirty Abandoned Churches from Around the World. Imagine vital communities gathering, celebrating, remembering, worshipping in these buildings. What spiritual parasite has destroyed these communities? Where did faith go? I am convinced that it is impossible — apart from divine sustenance, like God-directed... Read more

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