by Tim Fountain | Mar 1, 2020 | Academia, Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, U.S. Politics
Image from AdWeek When we use the term theocracy, we don’t mean that God takes an office in some capitol city and runs things. We mean that we’ve surrendered to the assumption that God makes a select group of people wise and moral enough to organize our...
by Tim Fountain | Feb 23, 2020 | Academia, Bible Study, Church Growth, Go to Church, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel
No, not Election as the multigazillion dollar board game to gain control of the imperial city on the Potomac, or Election the deep, prayerful and absolutely always fruitful effort to snap up a Bishop from those dancing ’round the mitre tree. Election, as in the...
by Tim Fountain | Feb 9, 2020 | Episcopalians, Roman Catholics, Theological Liberalism, U.S. Politics, Woke Church
Photograph of China’s “Red Guards” used in The Guardian : Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images A clergy friend with a fruitful ministry sends me news links every so often. I’m not sure if he’s reaching out for my sage input from...
by Tim Fountain | Jan 26, 2020 | Anglicans, Episcopalians, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel
Associated Press File Photo, November 9, 1968, California at USC January 23rd was the 32nd anniversary of my ordination as a priest in the Anglican… Church? Communion? [insert organizational descriptor that seeks to mask fracture and incoherence.] 32. That was...
by Tim Fountain | Jan 19, 2020 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel
I keep a Bible and Book of Common Prayer in my locker at the hospital where I work. I read Morning Prayer at home with my English Standard Version Bible; I have my Africa Study Bible (New Living Translation) at work for Evening Prayer. (No big commentary in sharing...
