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Charles Hefling
Charles Hefling is an instructor in the diaconal formation program of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and an adjunct member of the faculty at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge. He was formerly a professor of systematic theology at Boston College.
Dorothy Sayers, Charles Williams, and W. H. Auden discuss their unconventional love lives
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
April 24, 2017
Speaking of the cross
Much of what Christianity has long been saying about the cross of Christ is problematic. So what is to be done about it?
July 20, 2016
Has the Episcopal Church been plutoed?
What really happened at Canterbury this month, nobody knows. Nobody can know, because it hasn’t finished happening....
January 25, 2016
How wide is God’s mercy? The Holy Spirit in other religions
Could the Spirit's love be poured into the hearts of people untouched by the incarnation? Could non-Christians be lovers of the only God there is?
November 3, 2015
Why the cross? God’s at-one-ment with humanity
Some questions won't go away. The creed says Jesus was crucified "for us," but what do those two little words mean?
March 11, 2013
Who is communion for? The debate over the open table
Offering the elements to the unbaptized can be seen as a development and not a revolution, but it is a significant change. Is it a good one?
November 19, 2012
It looks like a wedding: The new Episcopal same-sex rite
The new liturgy makes no claim that couples of the same sex can, in the ecclesiastical sense, marry. What it does say is more interesting.
August 21, 2012
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