Unveiling God’s Grace January 15, 2021 Essays & Reviews, Highlight This daily devotional contains contributions from 63 authors who write from a variety of backgrounds and Christian denominations. Each entry sings about God’s grace abounding to sinners.
Dalí and the Psychology of Sin January 11, 2021 Features, Highlight Although Dalí’s ambition outruns his ability to resolve all the contradictions that his work contains (quite in contrast to Dante), his attempt at the Divine Comedy is at least a reminder of the slow, cumulative, step-by-step nature of life as a pilgrimage.
Learning Latin from Fr. Reginald Foster January 7, 2021 Features, Highlight Reginald became a celebrity, a myth, in part, of his own making, which functioned as an effective advertising campaign. Students came because he was a great Latinist, but they also came because of the stories they heard about him.
Lights of the World: Sarah, Theodora, Syncletica: 1/5 January 4, 2021 Features, Highlight The prevalence of women in the desert hermitages and communities that sprung up in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria in the fourth century is sometimes obscured by the attention that male monastics received in subsequent devotional and historical inquiry.
2020 in Review: The Episcopal Church December 30, 2020 Features, Highlight, News The pandemic undoubtedly did more than any other factor to affect the lives of Episcopalians and the workings of the Episcopal Church in 2020 -- and the pandemic dominated TLC's news coverage. But racial issues provided another strong theme, as the Church joined society's anguished considerations of racism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
2020 in Review: International Anglican News December 29, 2020 Features, Highlight, News In 2020, Anglican churches across the world responded creatively to the coronavirus pandemic, which also poses deep financial challenges in some places and complicates recovery from natural disasters. Differences over sexuality challenge the unity of the Anglican Church of Australia, while new primates were elected and a new province created in North Africa.
‘Ye Who Now Will Bless the Poor’: King Wenceslas December 24, 2020 Features, Highlight Illustration from Jessie M. King’s “A Carol: Good King Wenceslas,” published by The Studio magazine for their Christmas 1919 supplement. By Charles Hoffacker A look at the index entitled “Authors, Transl... Read more...
St. Jane de Chantal and St. Francis de Sales, 12/12 December 11, 2020 Features, Highlight Lights of the World Saint Francis de Sales puts the rule to St. Jane de Chantal by Bertrand François, in Toulouse Cathedral | bit.ly/3qOsn64 Lights of the World is TLC's occasional series of vignettes abou... Read more...
Incarnational Abstraction in An Ancient Icon December 9, 2020 Features, Highlight What struck me when I saw the work in person last year was how modern the work appeared, with its hauntingly expressive distortions. Rarely have I encountered such a powerful sense of presence in any image.