But the Church Isn’t a Factory

No, I’d not in fact heard of the formulation you quote from Father John Romanides: “If the Church were a factory, its product would be relics.” And no, I wasn’t thinking of things in quite so osteopathic a way when I spoke in my last post about...

Paganism and the Production of Saints

In the American South where I teach, the question comes up much less frequently, I expect, than in your part of the world. But yes, there are certainly a few people here, including the occasional student, who claim to be practicing “pagans”. Obviously, the...

Contextualization and Contradiction

Yes, my students too are always quite puzzled—and often worried that I mean to undermine their faith—when I tell them there are some things even God can’t do. In my Theology course the issue first arises when, in lecturing on the doctrine of creation...