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Why Churches Should NOT Drop Online Services
Tish Harrison Warren, a priest in the Anglican Church in North America, is probably best known as the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary (2018), which was a Christianity Today Book of the Year, and Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep (2021), which was CT’s 2022 Book of the Year. She can seriously write. And she has stuff worth saying. Consequently, she now has a regular column in the New York Times. And I subscribed, because I generally like her work. Plus, I love that the NYT has a regular columnist who is a Christ-follower writing about faith. Still, last week, I had some serious issues with her words. And apparently I had plenty of company,…
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Matter Matters
“It’s all gonna burn!” Many times I heard this exclamation in my early days as a Christian. Those who said it to me intended it as an interpretation of Jesus’s exhortation to avoid laying up treasures on earth, where things get stolen and destroyed (Matt 6:19). I imagine 2 Peter 3:10 also had some influence on such thinking about earth: “But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment” (NLT). So people told me…
