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Tyler Been

The Rev. Tyler Been serves as the curate at Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. Tyler is married to Laken and they have two children, Margaret and Julian.

Why Is the Resurrection Good News?

If, come Easter morning, a preacher mounted the steps of the pulpit and proclaimed, “Hitler is risen!” I doubt that anyone would reply, “He...

My Experience of Post-Christianity

Part of the process toward being ordained in the Episcopal church is clinical pastoral education (CPE). I have long thought it would be profitable...

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

In March of 1933 Karl Barth delivered a lecture, “The First Commandment as Theological Axiom” (cited parenthetically hereafter). This lecture is fascinating for several...

The Unsettling God of Abraham

"'God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob,’ not of philosophers and scholars.” After Blaise Pascal’s death, a piece of parchment with these...

God’s Hiddenness and a Miscarriage

Two days after Easter, my wife and I found out that our expected child was dead. She should have been twelve weeks along in...

The Eternal Processions and the Triune Formula

Every Sunday, by their recitation of the Nicene Creed, Anglicans confess belief in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In many ways, the creed...