This is a continued exploration and working out of being a Christian who is in the World but not of the world. This exploration is a bit eclectic, like the goth aesthetic itself.
Here are reflections on the Church, the Spiritual life and the gothic subculture as a Christian who identifies as a goth. Since I am a pastor and spiritual director I wanted to create a space to
explore and struggle with issues of church and pastoral care in an age of post-Christendom.
Here are also found portfolios of my iconographic work.
I invite the reader to explore with me the world of the priestly goth.
- Photo by John Bambino
Good(Holy) Friday and the Justice of God
The AngloBaptist is wrestling with today, well with the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth as the will of God. He says it’s insane. I agree we enter the Misterium Tremendum most viscerally here on Good Friday. The mystery of our faith is terrible. we are shaken, it is Holy. Oddly we want to judge God, [...]
Enter the Mystery: A Maundy Thursday Sermon
Sermon Preached at Joint Service with Immanuel Lutheran Church and St Elias Christians Church Over the next three days we are in the midst of the great Mysteries of our faith. Mystery not in the sense of something to find out like a detective using deductive logic, Nor even mystery as something that can’t be [...]
Justice, Righteousness, Occupy and the Cure of souls.
A couple of Weeks ago over at Anglobaptist.org, A photo for the D.C. Occupy Church and a quote from a post by Micah Bales was the catalyst for a dispute over the relationship of justice to the Gospel, and the role of the Church in political systems and movements. On one level the above conversation [...]