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Countless times already, various fringe groups within Christianity have predicted a date for the second coming of Christ. They did not care about this being a clear [...]

You probably know the saying "Gods ways are not our ways", which is sometimes used when we have no explanations or do not even want to think [...]

The following article is a response to “Thinking about ordination?”, a blog from 2016 by Father Marcus (in 2019 removed from his own site). This blog, which [...]

Humanity seems to be having many problems with the name of God. This does not only concern swearing or the many flippant uses of “OMG”. It is [...]

The first three chapters of the book of Genesis seem an unlikely place to start our reflections about the priesthood, for priests and priesthood are not mentioned [...]

Martin Luther is best known for the 95 theses which he is said to have nailed to the door of the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg on the 31st [...]

In a way, I am glad I have not (or not yet) been ordained . Otherwise, I might be tempted not to address a persistent abuse and [...]

This is the second of two essays about the history and future of Reader ministry in the Church of England. If you have not read my first [...]

If we want to discover the office of Reader in the New Testament, we are in for a hard time. There simply is no such thing, or [...]

On the 25th of June 2017, the Old-Catholic Church in Amsterdam hosted a symposium on the question whether there is such a thing as a specific priestly [...]

In 1964 The Roman Catholic Church held the Second Vatican Council and adopted a new dogmatic constitution dealing with how the Church understood itself, in other words [...]