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A Three-Day Work Week? The Life of One Priest — Part I: Anchor Points

...find essential to the ministry, is the study of a book for 45 minutes to an hour. As I wrote in an earlier covenant post, spending some quiet time in...

The Horrors and Defeat of the Devil

...(51-79). God’s election of Jesus Christ has as its end fellowship with his human covenant partner but of necessity involves overcoming the Nothingness that threatens them and their world. Warfare...

More Context for the Collapse of the Anglican Church of Canada

Editor’s Note: The essay appeared first as an Editorial in The Anglican Planet. It builds on an essay which appeared earlier on Covenant. For too long, we have danced around...

Communion Partners Bishops — Louisville Statement, September 2024

...a covenant between a man and a woman, and for those who believe it is a covenant between two people. The Task Force included equal numbers holding both theological positions,...

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

...mooted in The Windsor Report (2004) and the proposed Anglican Covenant (2009), but neither text “invented” this for Anglicanism. Both texts assume that there is much more than simply a...

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

...puts it) “Christian marriage is a solemn and public covenant between a man and a woman in the presence of God” (p. 422). What are the alternative claims as presented...

The Anglican-Methodist Covenant in Britain at 21

...and Ministry in Covenant. But that is a matter for another occasion. In the meantime, I look forward to celebrating 21 years of the Anglican-Methodist Covenant in November, and the...

The Last Gospel

...and whole provinces, including the Anglican Church in Canada, profiled in Covenant in August, struggle to maintain their numerical vibrancy. The Church of England is more divided than it has...

Rethinking Paul’s Relationship to Judaism

...whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the worship, and the promises […] and from whom, according to the flesh, comes the Messiah”; my...

A Thicker Constellation of Vocation

...our baptismal covenant asserts — then vocation is actually (re)placed in its proper context in the life of the Church. In fact, one could call baptismal and confirmation liturgies as...

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