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Is the Post-COVID Bounce Over? The Episcopal Church’s Numbers

The Episcopal Church remains 25 percent smaller than it was pre-COVID. The post-COVID bounce that raised attendance in 2022 and 2023 is over.

Retirement as Vocation?

Retirement is a vocation, one we ought to receive graciously as a new stage in personal and spiritual growth.

Doctrine & Doxology—How We Teach Matters

How we communicate is as important as what we communicate. In teaching about God we praise God. Our doctrine is bound up in doxology.

Can We Leave the Door Unlocked?

Leaving a door open, although a simple action, is a complicated proposition. I don’t mean metaphorically, but truly to unlock a door and structure...

What We Do with Power

What might Herod, the ruthless king who appears in Matthew 2, teach us about discipleship and our relationship to power as Christians? It may...

Renewal, A Rule of Life, and a Challenge to Men

Could a renewed interest in a Rule of Life be an avenue to reaching men, a diminishing demographic in many mainline churches?

The Forgotten Leg: Anglican Constitutionalism and the Church’s Call Today

The so-called Anglican method took shape within a moral and legal imagination formed by restraint, continuity, and ordered disagreement.

Beating Down Satan

The Great Litany has us think about the Devil in relation to Christ’s saving work, namely through the whole course of Christ’s obedience.

Celebrating Kitsch—God’s Embrace of Our Life & Death

Christ emptied himself, becoming one of us in all our ragged fleshiness. In his cruciform embrace of our ordinary death is our salvation.

Ash Wednesday: Repentance & Liberation

Locusts! Joel announces impending doom and our frailty. And yet when we rend our hearts, God rends the heavens.

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