What does it truly mean to be free? Most of us carry around an idea of freedom that looks something like this: no rules, no restrictions, no one telling us what to do. But what if that vision of freedom is actually keeping us from the deepest kind of freedom we could ever experience? This sermon turns our common assumptions about freedom completely upside down. We explore how the very constraints we resist -- our relationships, our responsibilities, our limitations -- might actually be the path to genuine freedom rather than obstacles to it. Just as a musician must submit to scales and structure before they can truly play, and just as a marriage requires us to bend toward another person, true freedom is not found in having unlimited options. It is found in being attuned to something beyond ourselves. The cross of Christ stands at the center of this reflection as the ultimate image of freedom -- not despite its suffering and confinement, but because of what it expresses. When we see Jesus choosing the cross in submission to the Father's will, we are seeing the most profound act of human freedom ever performed. This is a message that challenges us to reconsider what we are really after when we demand our freedoms, and to ask whether the life we are chasing is actually the life that sets us free.
24 May 2026
On Speaking in Tongues
In this catechesis lecture, Fr. Tyler Holley explains the common texts used to support the modern practice of "speaking in tongues". Arguing for the historic interpretation that St. Paul and St. Luke are speaking of xenoglossia rather than glossolalia (gibberish speech), he also addresses the change in "plausibility structure" that occurred in the 19th century that allowed for this new interpretation to seem plausible. The preference for unmediated, personal religious experience was the inevitable fruition of the Enlightenment, which place unquestionable trust in the truth of our own experiences. In the end, he argues that to accept the modern idea of "gibberish speech" as a valid religious experience would be to accept a host of presuppositions that are biblically unjustified, historically unknown, and spiritually damaging. He leaves us with a charitable way of considering the phenomenon using the psychological category of "learned emotional response".
22 Feb 2026
Prayer: Prayer as Silence
15 Feb 2026
Prayer: Prayer as Repetition
1 Feb 2026
Prayer: Praying without ceasing
7 Dec 2025
Theology of Art: Art, Modernity, and the Quantification of Truth
23 Nov 2025
Theology of Art: Art and Derridean Deconstruction
21 Sept 2025
An Ordered Life Session 4
7 Sept 2025
An Ordered Life Session 3: The Lightbulb and the Temptation to Constant Work
24 Aug 2025
An Ordered Life "Class 2: What is an Ordered Life?"
In this catechesis class, Fr. Tony discusses particular "orderings" of life that we get from the Book of Scripture and the Book of Nature. He discusses 1) Keeping the Sabbath, 2) Rising and Resting with the Sun, 3) Daily Prayer, 4) Embracing Fruitfulness, and 5) Rejecting Opulence. Enjoy!
17 Aug 2025
An Ordered Life "Class 1: The Law of Scripture & The Law of Nature
Week one of our fall class of an ordered life in which we discuss The Law of Scripture & The Law of Nature
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