Articles
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Field Notes
In Green Pastures
On Burying the Dead Well
A parish that can’t explain the Church’s norms clearly will end up explaining them badly, in a parking lot, to a family that has already made plans.
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Field Notes
Small Seal, Weekly
A Field Guide to Your Parish Bulletin
I once tried retiring the parish bulletin. The outcry was immediate, and the bulletin came back. What, exactly, were people so loyal to?
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Scripture & StrategyPillars
Confessions of a Middle Manager
On AI, Authorship, and Whose Voice This Actually Is
Near the end of Romans, a man named Tertius steps forward as ‘the writer of this letter.’ Nobody has ever called it Tertius’s letter.
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PillarsDoctrine
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
Before Your Mission Statement, Define Your Belief
Legend says Santa Claus slapped Arius at Nicaea. The real fight lasted decades, and at one point hung on a single Greek letter.