Volume > Issue > New Oxford Notes: September 2013

New Oxford Notes: September 2013

Discerning the Spirits of Deception

The presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church has difficulty distinguishing the work of the Lord from that of the spirits of deception.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
Dances With Wolves, Vatican Edition

The days of trusting what's going on deep behind the scenes in chanceries and in the Roman curia are over. Transparency is what's needed, not blind trust in some broken bureaucracy.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.

You May Also Enjoy

Respect (Rev. 3:20)

Gentle Lord, I love You.

You tiptoe ‘cross my heart.

You sit beside me quietly…

History Never Happened

By the time the future comes, the present has bled into the past. The mind makes a story later about some of the scraps and calls it “history,” but no such story exists.

A Radical Recalibration of the Moral Economy

A more receptive attitude toward creation, with less getting and spending and having, and more being and waiting and watching, is a way of cooperating with grace.