Setting up a personal website is a troubling business. I am not speaking about the trouble of rummaging through thirty years of hard and soft files of miscellanea, much of it occasional in purpose and often only half-finished. No, the trouble is deeper: what is a Christian minister, make that a Christian of any stripe, doing exalting himself on the worldwide web? Well, here are my excuses.
Author: Stephen Noll
THE EMPTY TOMB: SACRAMENT OF THE MATERIAL GOD
The Empty Tomb stands at the head of the Easter season as a remembrance that the Resurrection life – Jesus’ and ours – can be entered only by the gate of the body’s death. Jesus did not just “enter into …
ARCHBISHOP OKOH’S EPIPHANY LETTER: A Close Reading
Rest assured, friends, Nicholas Okoh, like Peter Akinola before him and Ben Kwashi after him, are girded with the whole armor of God. I am not sure how many other bishops in the Anglican Communion will follow them, but they …
SHAZAM! HEY, UNTO YOU A CHILD IS BORN!
One of our family’s favorite Christmas activities is reading Barbara Harrison’s wonderful story, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. It tells of how some ragamuffin children called the Herdmans invaded a sedate Sunday School pageant and in so doing brought alive …
IT’S THE PROPERTY, STUPID!
I can hardly imagine what it might mean to walk away not only from the property but the heritage of a thousand-year-old parish church. And if there comes a genuine "win-win" solution, I would say, "take it in a moment." …
GOD THE FATHER: Three Biblical Reflections
Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, recently issued a press report about how he experiences God as father: The Most Revd Justin Welby said that calling God “father” for him means that “here is one that is perfect, that loves …
VERY MAN: TWO GOOD BOOKS ON SEEING JESUS
Twenty years ago, I gave a lecture titled “Seeing Jesus: Who Did Jesus Think He Was?” Here is the way I began it (updated a bit): When I became a Christian in college, I remember the excitement of opening the …
SECULARISM ON THE MARCH: THE ABOLITION OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
Note: I was invited to give the annual public lecture, sponsored by Uganda Christian University and its Africa Policy Centre, on the topic “Secularism on the March: The Abolition of Marriage and Family.” I delivered the lecture on 24 October …
LETTER TO THE CHURCHES: THE TEXT WITH COMMENTARY by Stephen Noll – Free Download
LETTER TO THE CHURCHES: THE TEXT WITH COMMENTARY by Stephen Noll is now available as a free download from Anglican House (GO HERE). “Once more the Anglican world is indebted to Dr Noll for his writings. This time he expounds …
ALL THINGS VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE: A Sermon for St. Michael and All Angels
No, “invisible things” are real entities that can never be seen by our mere human senses. The first Soviet astronaut, Yuri Gagarin, followed shortly by the Anglican bishop John Robinson, thus made a major category mistake when he reported he …
LAMBETH DIARY WEEK THREE: Diary from the Third Week of the Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops August 2-9, 1998
“This has been an historic session,” announced the moderator Archbishop Robin Eames as he announced that Resolution 1.10 [or A 31] on Human Sexuality had passed by the margin of 526 for, 70 against, and 45 abstaining. Indeed it was. …