Kenyan-Japanese Couple Croons Amidst COVID-19 January 27, 2021 Features, Highlight “Through music, these children have found a way of healing pain in the past and finding hope in the future. This is also an opportunity for these children to discover and grow their talents.”
A More Christian Way to Talk About Sexuality January 22, 2021 Essays & Reviews, Highlight Jessica Martin proposes that our current Anglican division over human sexuality “was itself handed to the Church on the back of a general cultural idolization of sex as transcendent liberation.”
Prayers for a New Beginning January 21, 2021 Features, Highlight, Opinion America can come together “if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.”
Egypt’s Anglicans Offer Challenge to Intolerance January 21, 2021 Features, Highlight The role of the Anglican Church in Egypt is to be a humble, honest Christian presence within the majority population, articulate when opportunities occur and questions emerge, but always embodying the evidence of what was once notably described as “being with Jesus.” (Acts 4:13).
Deacons Play Evolving Role January 18, 2021 Features, Highlight Prior to 1960, the diaconate functioned largely as a terminal ministry for women and a long-term holding pattern for racial minorities. After the mid-60s, deacons were reframed as having a role representing Christ in a way that functionary priests do not.
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.
