Joseph Mangina

By God’s grace, sermons can be revelatory moments, “events” of the Word of God. This is the on-going witness of Fleming Routledge to Christ.

The grace of God sets us free to worship, learn, teach, write, and otherwise play a part in the work of the kingdom.

Lent is often a time of catechesis, and it is an especially opportune season to explore one of the most basic catechetical questions, “Why did Jesus have to die?”

Many parishes will have baptisms this Sunday, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. In Baptism, water is poured. The new Christian dies and rises with Christ. Grace happens. What, though, is the role of the Covenant added to many Baptismal rites, for example in TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada?

I am a latecomer to George MacDonald’s The Diary of an Old Soul. I knew about the Scotsman MacDonald (1824-1905), of course; had read...

With the launch of TLC's new website, you can now subscribe to Covenant, receiving it every day right in your inbox. — Editor. “The Holy Spirit is...

With apologies to W.H. Auden  Everything within creation Speaks of Jesus’ Incarnation. Likewise too, his saving Passion Is shown forth in all that’s fashioned. The Word God spoke before...

News junkie that I am, I confess to indulging in a certain frequency of doomscrolling. I move from one story to another, compiling a...

In Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster movie Oppenheimer, the renowned physicist (played by Cillian Murphy) is twice heard quoting religious texts. One of these is...

By Joseph L. Mangina The etymology of the word weird is, if not actually weird, then at least complicated and interesting. According to the Oxford...