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Tim Sedgwick: a voice for this time
"The word of God is not primarily a script on a page but the presence of God in the lives of people, continually calling them to lives more faithful." "...moral discernment is not simply a matter of figuring out what to do. (It) is a matter of seeing and becoming who we are meant to be as Christians."
What I most appreciate about Tim Sedgwick is his ability to hold up integrity, integrity of living, integrity of community, integrity of belief and practice. In his books such as The Christian Moral Life and Preaching What We Practice, Tim holds up the vision of a community not afraid to believe that God is truly in us, acting, calling, deepening, a community listening to and speaking to a world whose hungers are our hungers. Rather than seeking to make simple the complexities of our world there is invitation to see these as that where the sacred, the true is found.
As well, there is a pragmatism in his thoughts that saves us from sacred hubris. How we live our lives does tell us what we believe. What we believe drives how we live our lives.
Bishop Taylor often says the biggest crisis in the Episcopal/Anglican Church is that we do not know who we are. Tim operates from and articulates our roots in a manner that calls us to the practices of what I call the experiment of Anglicanism- the belief that in the collective of the self-offering community is found deepest truth; in the community gathered around a common table we and the whole world finds our life and hope.
I encourage you to join Tim as he speaks at the Zabriskie Lectures on Saturday, October 17th, from 9:30 (registration) until 3:00. Click the link below for registration information.
"The Christian faith is an 'ars moreiendi', it is practice in the 'art of dying'. This dying leads to worship and to the celebration of a way of life, a way of life leading to love of God and neighbor." Tim Sedgwick
Peace,
Todd Donatelli