Matters of Faith

Click to expand menus. All items by Bill Cork unless otherwise noted. I was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, left while in college, studied church history in graduate school, and served in ministry positions in the Lutheran (1989-1992) and Catholic (1994-2007) churches before returning to the faith in which I was raised in 2007 (context for my return; first sermon after returning).

• Campus and Young Adult Ministry
  • A sampling of articles:
    • A Vision for Ministry to Higher Education in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (1999)
    • Catholic Campus Ministry Today (2005, PowerPoint)
    • Ministry with Young Adults (2002, PowerPoint)
  • More: Young Adult Ministry.
• Apologetics
  • Catholic Issues
  • The Role of Ellen White: "Private" vs. "Public" Revelation
• Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations
  • General
    • A Spirituality of Ecumenical Dialogue (1998)
  • Lutherans and Catholics
    • Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (PowerPoint, 1999)
    • Justification by Faith: Do Catholics and Lutherans Agree?
    • Luther on Mary
    • Reflections on the Nativity
    • Theologia Crucis: Luther and Francis in Convergence. (1989)
    • Reconciliation: Lutheran and Catholic (2002)
  • Judaism
    • Antisemitism and the Catholic Right (2002)
    • The Myth of Malaise: Ecumenism at the Fin de Siècle. (1998)
    • The Passion of The Christ
      • The Passion of the Christ: Crisis and Opportunity in Jewish-Catholic Relations.
      • Passionate Blogging: Interfaith Controversy and the Internet. In J. Shawn Landres and Michael Berenbaum, editors, After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences (AltaMira, 2004).
      • The Sources of The Passion of The Christ
  • Islam
    • Respect between Muslims and Christians (2007, PowerPoint)
• Eschatology
  • Comparative Eschatology (2007)
• Evangelism
  • The Alpha Course--An Evaluation (ca. 2004).
  • The Evangelization of the Americas: St. Francis as Conquistador (1992).
  • Healing--Becoming Whole (1998)
  • History of the Parish Mission (1998)
  • An Introduction to Catholic Evangelization (PowerPoint)
  • Liturgy and Evangelization (1999)
  • The Sabbath That Remains (1998)
• Morality
  • Aspirations of the Heart: Young Adults and Catholic Teaching on Sexuality (1999)
  • Evangelium Vitae (1995)
  • The Splendor of Truth (1993)
• New Age and the Occult
  • C. G. Jung and Contemporary Spirituality (book review)
  • The Da Vinci Code (2006, PowerPoint)
  • Feminism and the Christian God (book review)
  • Myers-Briggs and Other Modern Astrologies, by Thomas Long.
  • St. John of the Cross on Apparitions
  • Tell Me Who I Am, O Enneagram, by Fr. Mitchell Pacwa.
  • Veriditas and the Labyrinth Project, by Lee Penn.
  • Von Balthasar's Occultism.
    • Excerpt from Foreword to Meditations on the Tarot, by Hans Urs von Balthasar (example of a mainstream theologian dabbling in the occult).
• Pilgrimage
  • A Pilgrim's Journal. Auriesville, 2002.
  • France, Switzerland, and Rome, 2005.
  • Seeing the Face of Christ. Guatemala, 1994.
  • The Savior of the World. El Salvador, 1996.
  • Thoughts on the Christian Call to Discipleship. 1992.
  • Vermont, Montreal, and Auriesville, 2005.
• Spirituality
  • Adventist Spirituality
• Technology
  • The Church & the Internet. Reflections on the IS2K Conference at Harvard.
  • Food (links to external sites)
    • Fast Food Nation
    • The Meatrix
    • Backwards Hamburger
    • The Jungle