“May You Live In Interesting Times”: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
“May You Live In Interesting Times” There was a time when Church history taught us to see today’s Church in its right place. It was a time when we could say with conviction that,...
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Confessors and Martyrs: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Confessors and Martyrs It was a day in the late autumn of 1984. My wife, Janet, and I were making our way to a lunch appointment in an English village close to the ancient...
John Keble – Simple Things: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
John Keble – Simple Things One of my church history heroes is the nineteenth century poet and priest, John Keble. As some will know, he was a part of the Oxford Movement that sought...
Remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu Everyone who met him has vivid memories of him. I served as his chaplain when he spoke at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit, and met him again when...
A Bidding Prayer for Christmas Eve: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
A Bidding Prayer for Christmas Eve Many of us are familiar with the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, either in our own churches or in hearing the broadcast from King’s College, Cambridge, UK,...
If We Really Believed: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
If We Really Believed It may simply be that the author of the fourth Gospel was astounded by what he was trying to describe. While the writers of the other Gospels speak of a...
Advent Notes: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Advent Notes God is with us. These are comforting words, and they are meant to comfort, but not only to comfort, for the Incarnation means more than God coming down and becoming man, as...
The Greatest Miracle: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
The Greatest Miracle The autonomy of the created order is one of those axioms that we live with in the modern age. In practical terms, the Enlightenment idea of the universe as a wound...
Advent and Incarnation: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Advent and Incarnation I wrote this essay three years ago in 2018. The mid-term elections had already been held. We knew nothing of a virus named Covid-19. In that year, families had gathered for...
A Sense of the Sacred: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
A Sense of the Sacred It seems to me that we have lost a sense of the sacred. What I mean by this is that those who identified themselves as Christians through most of...
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