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Matthew S.C. Olver

The Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver, Ph.D., is the Executive Director and Publisher of the Living Church Foundation, Senior Lecturer in Liturgics at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, and a scholar of early Christian liturgy.

Political Religion or Religious Politics?

The City of Man has always been a mixed body. It does not live by the order of the kingdom of God.

Contradictory Teaching — Here, There, and Everywhere (Part 3)

Editor's Note: Part One may be found here.  Part Two may be found here. Part Three Looking Ahead with Augustine In this third and final part of...

Two Teachings — Here, There, and Everywhere (Part 2)

Editor's Note: Part One may be found here. Part Two Degrees of Communion There are several examples of differences that have been church-dividing in some contexts but...

Two Teachings — Here, There, and Everywhere (Part 1)

Editors' Note: This is the first of a three-part series; these essays will appear sequentially this week. Part One Is there a contradiction? “Does this violate the...

The Prayer Book, Memorialization, and Communion Across Difference, Part III

EDITORIAL This is the final part of my three-part essay on these matters. Part I discussed the resolutions proposed by the Task Force on Communion...

The Prayer Book, Memorialization, and Communion Across Difference, Part II

EDITORIAL This second part of my three-part essay on these matters begins the conversation about the first step in the process to add gender-neutral marriage...

The Prayer Book, Memorialization, and Communion Across Difference

EDITORIAL  This article is being published in three parts. Part I looks at the resolutions proposed by the Task Force on Communion Across Difference, which...

The Weight of the BCP at General Convention

This year’s General Convention will consider a second reading of a revision to Article X of the Constitution. It would be very unwise for General Convention to pass this revision.

Pope Francis’ Fiducia Supplicans: Over the Rubicon, past the Tiber, and into a Sea of Change

The recent text from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), issued just a week before Christmas, is likely to change, well,...

This Fragile Frame, the Pilgrim’s Home

The image of the pilgrim anchors the biblical vision for the life of the creature who names the biblical God as Lord. Robert Crouse,...