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...
