Essays & Reviews

One Use

  • Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The Book of Common Prayer as Constitutional Document
By John C. Bauerschmidt

A Measuring Rod

  • Monday, June 4, 2012

By Benjamin M. Guyer
The canon of Scripture contains “all things necessary for salvation,” but it does not contain all things necessary for running the Church. This latter task is fulfilled by canon law.

Saint of the Sierra

  • Friday, June 1, 2012

By Anne Rowthorn
No single American has done more to preserve our wilderness than John Muir — naturalist, Christian, and founder of the Sierra Club.

Punched Back

  • Friday, May 25, 2012

Review by Tony Hunt
The first half of For the Parish is a sustained polemic against Fresh Expressions, a popularizing church movement in the U.K.

Our Political Captivity

  • Friday, May 25, 2012

By Victoria Heard and Jordan Hylden
General Convention’s structure has slavishly copied in ecclesial ink the politics and legislative processes of American culture.

Tuning in Theology

  • Tuesday, May 22, 2012

By Anthony D. Baker
What if the crowded dinner table were as suitable an icon of theological scholarship as the cloistered desk?

Checks and Balances

  • Monday, May 21, 2012

By Derek Olsen
Presiding Officers as Partners — and Foils

The Message of the Mission

  • Monday, May 14, 2012

By Thomas Ferguson
The missiology of the Episcopal Church’s proposed budget for 2013-15.

Firmly I Believe

  • Friday, May 11, 2012

A report by Anthony Clavier and “Shining with the Gospel,” a sermon by Ephraim Radner from Nashotah House’s “Justification in Anglican Life & Thought: Retrospect and Prospect.”

General Convention’s Roles

  • Tuesday, May 8, 2012

By Timothy E. Kimbrough
The Episcopal Church’s custodian, steward, mission source, and town hall.

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