Archives: ‘Gloriously Crazy’ V-J Day Celebrations August 17, 2020 From the Archives, Highlight Excerpts from TLC issues from August, 1945: Remembering the end of World War II, 75 years ago this week, marked by solemn services and spontaneous joy across the country; with an editorial by Clifford P. Morehouse, praying for wisdom and humility in victory.
Archives: Atom Bomb & ‘Monstrous Capacity for Evil’ August 6, 2020 From the Archives, Highlight "With the advent of the atomic bomb, isolationism is no longer even respectable. It is wild and woolly international anarchism."
Archives: Anglo-Catholic Congress Meets, July 1920 July 20, 2020 From the Archives, Highlight "The Congress has shown that the Catholic party is very much alive, and is strong, both intellectually and numerically. Those who took part in the proceedings are not likely to forget very soon the amazing scenes of enthusiasm for a great cause, prompted by an intense devotion to our Blessed Lord and a firm determination to uphold the principles of the Catholic Faith."
ARCHIVES: V-E Day: Rejoicing, Reconsecration, Work May 8, 2020 From the Archives In two issues in May, 1945, The Living Church reported extensively on joyful and solemn observances of V-E Day throughout the Episcopal Church, including at a Milwaukee war products factory. An Episcopal army chaplain also reported on a burial service he conducted the same day for 200 concentration camp victims in Ludwigslust, Germany.
From the Archives: A Hope Almost Fulfilled — Easter 1945 April 17, 2020 From the Archives TLC's Easter editorial in 1945 expressed relief as the war neared an end, tempered with concern about persistent nationalism and hatred.
ARCHIVES: Readers Urge Sunset Prayer, Street Processions March 26, 2020 From the Archives Letters to the Editor from TLC's October 26, 1918 issue give points for intercession during the Spanish flu epidemic and suggest processions to marshal the "terrible artillery of little children's prayers."
ARCHIVES: 1918 Philadelphia Clergy Oppose Church Closing March 19, 2020 From the Archives Twenty-two of the Episcopal clergy of Philadelphia lodged a protest against the banning of public worship in the city, whose failure to take early social distancing measures resulted in the highest death toll for any major city in the 1918 influenza epidemic.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The 1918 Epidemic and the Churches March 12, 2020 From the Archives TLC's editorial at the height of the 1918 flu pandemic urges cooperation by churches in preventing the disease and daily eucharistic worship for God's help for the suffering.
From the Archive: Ash Wednesday and Iwo Jima February 26, 2020 From the Archives, News The Living Church has been published continuously since 1878. In 1945, when Lent arrived earlier than this year, TLC carried this dispatch in the issue dated March 4, 1945. By Clifford P. Morehouse Appro... Read more...