Tag Archives: John R. Rice

“The Great Western Heresy”

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Stephen

At the opening address of the 2009 General Convention of the Episcopal Church this summer, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding Bishop, had this to say: “The overarching connection in all of these crises has to do with … Continue reading →

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Imagined Infallibility

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Stephen

After writing the post earlier this week about fundamentalism and intellectual humility, I picked up David Dark’s The Sacredness of Questioning Everything to read another chapter before bed. And, as frequently happens when reading or talking to David, I found … Continue reading →

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The Rice Sisters sing “So Little Time”

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Stephen

Here’s a video of my grandmother (third from the left), with her five sisters singing So Little Time, one of the better known of the many songs my great-grandfather wrote. The video is from 1975, the same year the aforementioned … Continue reading →

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Fundamentalism and Intellectual Humility

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Stephen

I just published an essay over at the Rabbit Room that I started to write a couple years ago but didn’t finish for some reason. Not long ago, I came across a quote by N.T. Wright that provided a concise … Continue reading →

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