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Ephraim Radner

The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner is Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. Prior to his appointment as Professor of Historical Theology, the Rev. Dr. Radner was rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Pueblo, Colorado. His range of ministerial experience includes Burundi, where he worked as a missionary, Haiti, inner-city Cleveland, and Connecticut.

Bishops in Council: Cranmer on Episcopal Decision-Making

At its General Synod this year the Anglican Church of Canada will consider a Constitutional change that would diminish the role of its House of...

Singing in Prison

By Ephraim Radner We all have strong views about hymns. My standard is whether they can be remembered in prison, be sung aloud, and have...

Is There a Rationale for the Anglican Communion?

The following essay is excerpted from a chapter in “God Wills Fellowship”: Lambeth Conference 1920 and the Ecumenical Vocation of Anglicanism, ed. Christopher Wells...

A Broad Place: Waning Thoughts on the Freedom to Teach

By Ephraim Radner One of my first memories of what a university looks like comes from my boyhood in early 1960s Berkeley. In my father’s...

Searching for Noah’s Ark: Report #120 from the Field

By Ephraim Radner Along with the many, mostly amateur, explorers who have been after the remains of Noah’s ark, I too have been searching for...

Way Back Wednesday: The Anglican Anti-Corruption Movement?

Nearly six years ago, Ephraim Radner penned this searching look at questions of the churches' integrity. First Peter 4:7 admonishes that judgment must begin...

Divine Irreplaceability

By Ephraim Radner One of the most difficult things I have done as a pastor is to stand beside people as they face a terrible...

Books: Forgotten Friends

By Ephraim Radner When I worked in Burundi in the early 1980s, my house stood across the road from the local school. One day, a...

Abraham and Sarah, Slaveholders

By Ephraim Radner Abraham and Sarah were slaveholders. Eliezer and Hagar were their slaves. The following is but a brief reflection on how we have...

The Questions that Remain

By Ephraim Radner I’m glad some folks took time to read my little piece, raising the question of whether live-streaming worship is a good. It...