Bishop Dan T. Edwards on The Help November 10, 2011 The Rt. Rev. Dan T. Edwards, Bishop of Nevada and a native of Arkansas, writes: Let me say this up front and clearly. The Help is a great movie. What it says about race relations in the South is not only true ... Read more...
The Cosmic Drama November 10, 2011 Essays & Reviews Review by David Heetderks Many listeners have likely heard Handel’s Messiah (1742) countless times and could sing many of its tunes from memory, but know comparatively less about Charles Jennens’s motivations for assembling its libretto, the conventions of the oratorio genre in which it was written, or Handel’s reasons for turning to the oratorio after several years of composing operas.
The World in Small Boats November 10, 2011 Essays & Reviews Review by Michael Poon These “Sermons from Oxford” testify to the bold ways that Professor Oliver O’Donovan undertook his preaching and teaching ministries for over 30 years, from Toronto to Oxford, and now in Edinburgh.
Born as a Servant November 10, 2011 Essays & Reviews Review by Garwood P. Anderson This lovely book serves as a scholarly catalog for the “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus” exhibit.
We Need Healing, but Division Prevailed November 10, 2011 Essays & Reviews By Lourdes Inapanta Immediately after the confirmation at General Convention in Anaheim of the election of Bishop Luis Fernando Ruiz, the Diocese of Central Ecuador was full of joy and hope, anticipating better days and a renewed church. At least that is what one group in the diocese was experiencing.
Uses and Abuses of the King James Version November 10, 2011 Essays & Reviews By Mark A. Noll Although I agree wholeheartedly with most of what has been claimed about the beneficent legacy of the Authorized Version, as both a historian and a Christian it has seemed to me that other sides of the King James Version story deserve a hearing. What follows, therefore, is not an attempt to negate positive assessments, but rather an effort to add sober realism to what sometimes becomes runaway triumphalism.
South Carolina, Discipline, and the Constitution November 10, 2011 Essays & Reviews By Mark McCall, Esq. One of the allegations now being made against Bishop Lawrence is that the decision by the Diocese of South Carolina to continue to adhere to the prior Title IV canons rather than adopt the controversial new revisions constitutes abandonment by being an open renunciation of the discipline of TEC.
Rehearsing Discord in Canterbury November 10, 2011 Essays & Reviews By Bryan D. Spinks The International Anglican Liturgical Consultation (IALC) is one of the better-kept secrets of the Anglican Communion; few people know of its existence (since 1985), and even fewer read its reports. Usually its meetings pass largely unnoticed. This year’s meeting, like previous consultations, would probably have soon passed into oblivion, but for a presentation on same-sex blessing rites by a delegation from the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (SCLM).
South Carolina: The Need for Transparency November 10, 2011 Essays & Reviews By the Rev. Dr. Philip Turner and Mark McCall, Esq. We have considered carefully the available information related to the allegations against Bishop Mark Lawrence that are currently under review by the Disciplinary Board for Bishops. That information discloses an extended and troubling sequence of events that raises serious questions about transparency in the church.
Choose Inclusive Justice November 10, 2011 Essays & Reviews By Leander S. Harding As a priest of the Diocese of South Carolina I have watched my bishop, the Rt. Rev. Mark J. Lawrence, work with good faith and at great personal cost to keep the diocese, as he says, “intact and in TEC.”
