lex orandi, lex credendi Literally, “the law of prayer, the law of belief”. Understood to mean, the way we pray/worship determines what/how we believe.

lex orandi, lex credendi Literally, “the law of prayer, the law of belief”. Understood to mean, the way we pray/worship determines what/how we believe. I really like this idea. I think it resonates deeply with what I’ve been trying to do with Vespers. For many years I’ve had this sense that there was a large [...]

{I continue my journey through John Caputo’s The Weakness of God.} The Weakness of God is divided into two parts. Part One is ‘The Weakness of God’, Part Two is ‘The Kingdom of God: Sketches of a Sacred Anarchy’. In between these two halves he has included what he calls a ‘Hermeneutical Interlude’. This interlude [...]

I have realized lately the sad state of people’s understanding of Christian beliefs. I have seen many people of varied backgrounds, many living their whole life around the church, have murky if not simply wrong beliefs about the basic tenets of faith. I’m not saying that I expect everyone to have deep theological education, spending [...]