Tomorrow: A review of Vol. 1, No. 1 -- November 2, 1878 By Kirk Petersen The Living Church has been published continuously since 1878. The February 19, 2023 issue, in which this article first appeared, is the 7,017th. Decades before anybody alive today was born, the proprietors of TLC started collecting the issues into bound volumes. In the past few years, we’ve been working … [Read more...] about 14 Decades of an Episcopal ‘Family Album’
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How Do You Measure Online Worship ‘Attendance’?
This Is Not the Year To Procrastinate On the Parochial Report Virtual attendance is only one of the new wrinkles in the annual parochial report, which is due March 1. This year's form also asks for racial and ethnic membership data, and calls for narrative responses that may be substantive enough to discuss at a February vestry meeting. A video and detailed … [Read more...] about How Do You Measure Online Worship ‘Attendance’?
Past Reckoning: Moravian and Episcopal Histories of Race
By Richard J. Mammana Jr. The first webinar in the Moravian-Episcopal Coordinating Committee’s series Past Reckoning: Exploring the Racial History of the Moravian and Episcopal Churches drew more than 400 registrants on January 25. Participants in the three successive Wednesday evening panels, each followed by discussion, look at three topics: the evangelization of enslaved … [Read more...] about Past Reckoning: Moravian and Episcopal Histories of Race
Centered on Christ Crucified
Review by Eugene R. Schlesinger When the first volume of the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible appeared 15 years ago, the series promised to fill a much-needed lacuna in theological engagement with the Scriptures. In the intervening years, the landscape has changed considerably, no doubt due, at least in part, to these volumes, whose authors are self-consciously … [Read more...] about Centered on Christ Crucified
Lenten and Lent-Adjacent
Review by Cole Hartin Richard J. Foster’s Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue is a bit of a puzzle. As a meditation on humility, it is surely a welcome gift during the season of Lent. But the path to the subject is labyrinthine. Instead of a study structured topically or historically, it is a haphazard set of field notes from Foster’s musings in a … [Read more...] about Lenten and Lent-Adjacent
Artificial Intelligence and the Episcopal Church
Review by Kirk Petersen Artificial intelligence has been much in the news of late, particularly ChatGPT, a creation of OpenAI, which instantly begins spitting out detailed answers when a question is entered. Articles about ChatGPT generally fall in one of two categories: Gee whiz, this is so cool! (Despite its inaccuracies and other flaws.) Artificial intelligence … [Read more...] about Artificial Intelligence and the Episcopal Church
Podcast: Pickleball & Jazz With Fr. Doran Stambaugh
5 Under 25: Conversations with Emerging Episcopal Leaders
By Weston Curnow When General Convention met in Baltimore in the summer of 2022, church leaders made a pragmatic but painful decision: they chose to protect young people from COVID-19 by canceling the Official Youth Presence (a feature since 1989) and the Young Adult Festival (which has met alongside the convention since 2003). Disappointed by General Convention, I set … [Read more...] about 5 Under 25: Conversations with Emerging Episcopal Leaders