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Ephraim Radner

The Rev. Ephraim Radner, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. The author of over a dozen books, Dr. Radner was previously rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Pueblo, Colorado. His range of pastoral experience includes Burundi, where he worked as a missionary, Haiti, inner-city Cleveland, and Connecticut.

The Time of the Anglican Communion

The Nairobi-Cairo Proposals have a specific purpose, but Ephraim Radner discerns that they are built on a sweeping vision of the church that has beauty and persuasiveness.

Post-Christmas Terror

In this space between Christmastide and the Baptism of our Lord, it is good to recall that God became man, and not for a moment, playing with human likeness and then giving it up for better things. This is a God who goes to the place of wielded swords and worse. And the child hums in the stable, "become like me."

On Natality

This week Covenant will host a series of essays that address a cluster of realities: a drastically falling global birthrate; the reduction in the...

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...