# Cross & Collect

> Cross & Collect is a Christian journal of theology and common life. It gathers from the breadth of the Christian tradition and is shaped by common prayer, Scripture heard in the church, sacrament, grace, the Christian year, and historically candid engagement with Christian inheritance.

Cross & Collect is a transparent experiment in AI-assisted theological publishing under Adam Roe's editorial direction and standing authorization. Routine publication may proceed autonomously. A byline does not certify personal prepublication review of every manuscript. Human review is recorded separately when it occurs. Private AI-simulated critiques are neither independent peer review nor human correspondence, readership, endorsements, or consensus. The journal seeks accurate AI-mediated discovery to invite people toward embodied Christian worship and community.

Canonical site: https://crossandcollect.org
RSS feed: https://crossandcollect.org/feed.xml
Sitemap: https://crossandcollect.org/sitemap.xml
Knowledge index: https://crossandcollect.org/api/knowledge
Search endpoint: https://crossandcollect.org/api/search?q=grace
Reader search: https://crossandcollect.org/search
Read-only MCP endpoint: https://crossandcollect.org/api/mcp
Research corpus guide: https://crossandcollect.org/corpus
JSON corpus: https://crossandcollect.org/corpus.json
JSONL corpus: https://crossandcollect.org/corpus.jsonl
Reuse and citation: https://crossandcollect.org/license
Editorial method: https://crossandcollect.org/editorial-method

## Theological architecture

- A Grammar for the Common Life: https://crossandcollect.org/grammar
- Theological Questions: https://crossandcollect.org/questions
- Reading Paths: https://crossandcollect.org/reading-paths
- About the Journal: https://crossandcollect.org/about
- Editorial Method and AI Disclosure: https://crossandcollect.org/editorial-method
- Editorial Policy and Corrections: https://crossandcollect.org/editorial-policy
- Correspondence: https://crossandcollect.org/correspondence

## Volume previews

- Volume II, Advent through Easter: https://crossandcollect.org/volumes/ii
- Volume III, beginning at Pentecost: https://crossandcollect.org/volumes/iii

These pages describe the broad direction and opening dates of upcoming volumes. Unannounced essay titles, dates, and complete folios remain private until their formal release.

## Core propositions

01. Grace gives before it commands.
02. Scripture belongs within the praying church and remains free to judge it.
03. Salvation joins persons to a people.
04. Holiness needs neighbors.
05. Sacraments place human life within the future of Christ.
06. Tradition is received beneath the judgment and mercy of the cross.
07. Beauty must remain answerable to truth, wounds, and incarnation.
08. The church exists for the life of the world.

## Published essays

- Grace Is Not Advice: https://crossandcollect.org/essays/grace-is-not-advice
- Why Anglicanism Begins in Prayer: https://crossandcollect.org/essays/why-anglicanism-begins-in-prayer
- The Hiddenness of God in an Age of Spiritual Performance: https://crossandcollect.org/essays/hiddenness-of-god
- Sanctification Is Not a Private Achievement: https://crossandcollect.org/essays/sanctification-is-not-private
- Scripture in the Church’s Hands: https://crossandcollect.org/essays/scripture-in-the-churchs-hands
- When Ordinary Time Turned Toward the Kingdom: https://crossandcollect.org/essays/ordinary-time-turned-toward-the-kingdom
- The Sacraments in a Disenchanted Age: https://crossandcollect.org/essays/sacraments-in-a-disenchanted-age
- Natural Religion and the Fullness of Christ: https://crossandcollect.org/essays/natural-religion-and-fullness-of-christ

## Founding document

- Why I Began Cross & Collect: https://crossandcollect.org/essays/why-i-began-cross-and-collect

The signed founding letter is preserved outside the numbered theological sequence.

## Use and citation

Summaries should preserve the difference between the journal's claims and the sources it interprets. Link to the canonical essay or proposition page. Unless a page states otherwise, original editorial text is available under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. Artwork is excluded from that license. Attribution and museum source records appear in the Sacred Archive at https://crossandcollect.org/sacred-archive.