In his poem, Gethsemane, Rowan Williams helps us to see that in the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ's prayer encompasses all our prayers and all our afflictions.
Just as individuals are at once sinful yet justified in Christ, so too the church is constantly turning toward the savior, desiring holiness, even in the midst of sin and scandal.
In Genesis 15, Abram saw God make a promise in the midst of bloody sacrifice. Christ Jesus fulfilled that promise. And now we present ourselves as living sacrifices.
Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) and the broader tradition of Carnival ("goodbye to meat") are reminders of the joy of Christ prior to the season of Lent. Let's explore some traditions.
Those looking for a rich study this Lent in preparation for the paschal mystery would do well to consider Greenacre and Haselock, The Sacrament of Easter.
Despite a painful sense of estrangement due to American public policy, the Episcopal churches of Europe resolve a deeper commitment to the ministry of reconciliation.
Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that only little by little extend to other groups, but rather, per Christ's parable of the Good Samaritan, encompass all.
Practicing blessing as a spiritual habit changes one’s perception of the world. We reaffirm and name the goodness or beauty or grace of someone or something in creation.
Christopher Wells brings our series on the Nairobi-Cairo Proposal to a close, calling for opportunities of encounter by which strangers can again become friends.
The task of indigenization and inculturation - making the universal local while still globally recognizable - is the next step beyond the current configuration of the Communion Instruments.
For over a century, the Anglican Communion has been de-confessionalized, reduced to institutional relationships via the Communion Instruments. Given this reality, the IASCUFO recommendations are generously made.
Upholding Catholic and Apostolic faith and order, the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals recognize a global communion of churches whose leadership should shared by people from different regions and contexts.
The Nairobi-Cairo Proposals have a specific purpose, but Ephraim Radner discerns that they are built on a sweeping vision of the church that has beauty and persuasiveness.
Kicking off a two-week series on the succession at Canterbury and its role in the Anglican Communion, Bishop Graham Tomlin introduces the recent Nairobi-Cairo Proposals.
