Lent Light February 21, 2012 Essays & Reviews “Ashes to go” is the relatively recent ecclesiastical fad of offering Ash Wednesday ashes to people on the street. The notion of taking the church to the people can be offered as a rationale for this behavior, but it hardly rises to the level of an adequate defense.
Non-linear Verite February 13, 2012 Essays & Reviews The Tree of Life is nominated for three Academy Awards (best picture, best director, and best cinematography). It is also a film very few Episcopalians have seen. This strikes me as odd, particularly in light of the director’s background.
Remorselessly Christological February 10, 2012 Essays & Reviews The idea that in some sense Jesus saves not only us but the world by his substitutionary sacrificial suffering has, for Mark Noll, implications for the practice of scholarship, especially in the humanities and social sciences.
A Tale of Two Grandmothers January 20, 2012 Essays & Reviews, Features By Boyd Wright If God granted the prayers of one side and denied the others, did he consider the North right and moral and the South wrong and evil? Abraham Lincoln, for one, refused to believe this.
T. Grayson Dashiell: Secretary and Envoy January 13, 2012 Essays & Reviews, Features By Worth E. Norman, Jr. Probably no one else in the history of the Diocese of Virginia served the church in as many critical positions as T. Grayson Dashiell did over his career.
Epiphany and Souffles January 6, 2012 Essays & Reviews Charleston David Wilson writes: “Emersonian wisdom, writ large in society at the moment, says: ‘Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.’ This is hot air, plain and simple.”
Courageous Work January 6, 2012 Essays & Reviews In Harvesting the Fruits, Walter Cardinal Kasper, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity from 1999 and its president from 2001 to 2010, reflects on the achievements and challenges of over 40 years of formal dialogue with Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, and Reformed.
Dag Hammarskjold: Christian Peacemaker January 6, 2012 Essays & Reviews, Features By Nigel A. Renton In June the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music’s weblog began listing names of folk to be considered for the latest iteration of the Episcopal Church’s Sanctoral Calendar (Holy Women, Holy Men, in trial use during this triennium). The list neglected a worthy nominee in Dag Hammarskjöld, who died in September 1961.
Receiving Universal Primacy January 4, 2012 Essays & Reviews Mary Tanner writes: “The Roman Catholic Church must give a convincing form to the Petrine ministry to make it possible for others to share.”
Anglicanism without Communion January 2, 2012 Essays & Reviews In The Accidental Anglican the Anglican Mission is the Sun and the Anglican Communion is somewhere out in deep space.
