For more than four decades, New York City’s only Haitian Episcopal congregation has been a small, close-knit ethnic community that takes good care of its own. But now the Haitian Congregation of the Good Samaritan is reaching out to Haitians across the metropolitan area with help from a priest unlike any other in its history.When the Rev. Sam Owen accepted the call to Good … [Read more...] about Winning Haitians’ Trust
Archives for November 14, 2014
TLC 249/10 Online
The November 30 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. This issue’s cover story is a report by Peggy Eastman about masters of needlework who gathered recently at Washington National Cathedral. She writes:In 1954, the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre, Jr. — dean of the cathedral from 1951 to 1978 — suggested adding religious needlepoint to the … [Read more...] about TLC 249/10 Online
Reading Radner: Part 3
Cæli enarrant The seventh and eighth chapters of Ephraim Radner’s Brutal Unity press further into “the spiritual politics of the Christian Church” with special attention to conscience as a category and a problem. The Living Church published an excerpt from chapter seven, Radner’s account of Henri of Navarre’s “sacrifice of conscience” (Oct. 7, 2012), with further reflections … [Read more...] about Reading Radner: Part 3