By Paul F.M. Zahl Christians who love movies can spend a lot of time looking for “crumbs from the Master's table” within works that really aren’t particularly Christian. We'll spot a moment of pure grace in a PIXAR film or a flash of redemption in a contemporary drama and be interested, and maybe happy. There is nothing wrong with locating “anonymous” seeds of hope within … [Read more...] about Seen Any Good Lent Movies Lately?
Archives for February 2020
From the Archives: Martin Luther King’s Dream Today
The following editorial, the work of then-editor Carroll Simcox, was published in The Living Church fifty years ago this month, on February 8, 1970. A bill to make the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, January 15, a national holiday was introduced in Congress by Representative John Conyers of Michigan on April 8, 1968, just four days after King’s assassination in … [Read more...] about From the Archives: Martin Luther King’s Dream Today
New: 3/8 TLC Online
The March 8 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. In the cover story of the Lent Books issue, G. Jeffrey MacDonald introduces us to a group of artists, some of them homeless, who find therapy through art at a Boston church. The News section includes articles from Kirk Petersen reporting a joyous welcome home for the Cuban church, and … [Read more...] about New: 3/8 TLC Online
From the Archive: Ash Wednesday and Iwo Jima
The Living Church has been published continuously since 1878. In 1945, when Lent arrived earlier than this year, TLC carried this dispatch in the issue dated March 4, 1945. By Clifford P. Morehouse Approaching Iwo Jima Dear family: this is Sunday. At least, out here in the Western Pacific it is Sunday, February 18, 1945. Back in the United States it is Saturday, … [Read more...] about From the Archive: Ash Wednesday and Iwo Jima
Sell The Living Church
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They Made Me An Artist
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald BOSTON – Street artist Dennis Boylet hasn’t had an easy winter. Since mid-December, he’s slept every night at a Boston shelter and spent days walking the streets, often with nowhere to hunker down and ply his craft as a painter. Even so, “Sidewalk Dennis” has had a place to paint, pray and enjoy two meals in a group every Wednesday at Emmanuel … [Read more...] about They Made Me An Artist
Be Counted, in the Vote and in the Census
By Kirk Petersen The Church is urging Episcopalians to take an active role in two periodic rites of citizenship: voting, and the 2020 census. “It is a Christian obligation to vote, and more than that, it is the church’s responsibility to help get souls to the polls,” said Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. As for the census, he said "it's important for how our government … [Read more...] about Be Counted, in the Vote and in the Census
3/1 Readings: Defection and Justification
1 Lent Gen. 2:15-17, 3:1-7 Ps. 32 Rom. 5:12-19 Matt. 4:1-11 We were made from love and for love, and then we fell from love. What happened? Genesis chapter three opens but leaves unanswered huge theological questions. How could evil and death enter a world created solely by an all-loving and all-powerful God? At precisely what point did it enter and who is to blame? … [Read more...] about 3/1 Readings: Defection and Justification