Review by Grace Sears My Own Worst Enemy How to Stop Holding Yourself Back By Janet Davis. Bethany House. Pp. 256. $13 Do women in general — or Christian women in particular — hide their light under a basket they mistake for modesty or good manners? In My Own Worst Enemy, Janet Davis illustrates ways women conceal their gifts, drawing not only on her own experience but … [Read more...] about Humility, Piety, Pride
Archives for February 2014
Brackets of the Saints
By G. Jeffrey MacDonaldIt’s that time of year again: break out those brackets, pick your favorites and get ready to compete for serious bragging rights. College basketball? No, a tournament in which stakes are not as temporal as those of the NCAA, but instead reach all the way to heaven: Lent Madness.For the fifth consecutive year, fans of saints are lining up to make sure … [Read more...] about Brackets of the Saints
Dean Hall: Disturb the Peace
By Gary G. YerkeyEpiscopalians are obliged to violate earthly laws in order to advance the higher law established by God, the dean of Washington National Cathedral said on February 24. During a panel on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the Very Rev. Gary R. Hall cited the actions of Episcopalians in the 1960s to desegregate the racially divided … [Read more...] about Dean Hall: Disturb the Peace
Growth in the First Person
Review by Amy Lepine Peterson From the spate of autobiographical writing that began in the 1980s to the veritable tsunami of personal narratives available in print and online today, it seems that the genre of the memoir has come of age. For Christians, though, the memoir’s tendency to find the arc of redemption in a single life is nothing new. We regularly practice sharing … [Read more...] about Growth in the First Person
You and Your Neighbor
7 EpiphanyLev. 19:1-2, 9-18 • Ps. 119:33-40 • 1 Cor. 3:10-11, 16-23 • Matt. 5:38-48Sanctity is the point: a point to which, in this life, we never quite arrive and yet “things done” and “left undone” cannot blunt the sharp edge of God’s dividing word. “You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy” (Lev. 19:2). “I am the Lord!” resounds four times in a short text. … [Read more...] about You and Your Neighbor
TLC 248/5 Online
The March 9 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers.NewsJoyous Reunion at GeneralFeaturesEternal Return in CambodiaBy Steven FordGrowth in the First PersonBy Amy Lepine PetersonHumility, Piety, PrideBy Grace SearsBooksNew Books on Ephesians | Review by Kathryn Greene-McCreightCampbell and Kruse on Paul | Review by Garwood P. … [Read more...] about TLC 248/5 Online
Primates Call for New Meeting
Statement from the Global South Primates Steering CommitteeCairo, EgyptFebruary 14-15, 2014Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. (Ephesians 4:3).1. The Global South Primates Steering Committee met at All Saints Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt from 14-15 February 2014. We were delighted to have the Most Rev. & Rt. Hon. Justin Welby, the … [Read more...] about Primates Call for New Meeting
Turning Point for Haiti
By Mark HarrisThe Episcopal Church of Haiti held its 117th Synod on January 29 at Holy Trinity Cathedral. The cathedral, destroyed in the 2010 earthquake, is in its present incarnation housed in a temporary structure behind the ruins of the old cathedral.But there is nothing temporary about the cathedral as the central focus of the life of the Episcopal Church of Haiti. The 161 … [Read more...] about Turning Point for Haiti