Augustinian Thoughts on the Bible and Humility Joey Royal July 29, 2020 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Joey Royal Augustine of Hippo, teacher of rhetoric, admirer of Cicero, initially found the Bible crude and unsophisticated. He found both the form and the content of the Bible to be a stumbling block, and... Read More...
Bible Believing Episcopalians Fr. Clint Wilson July 28, 2020 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Clint Wilson Last year I was talking with a colleague who told me about an interaction she had with a young child in Sunday School as they discussed the story of the Annunciation. She mentioned to the chi... Read More...
The Decline of Celebrity Pastors Guest Contributor July 27, 2020 Commentary, Ministry, Tech, The Episcopal Church By John Sundara Contemporary evangelicalism has always been adept at using technology to advance its missionary outreach. The latest iteration of this aptitude has been the way evangelicals turned on a dime ... Read More...
Reading Boccaccio’s Decameron in the Time of Corona John Mason Lock July 24, 2020 Books, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By John Mason Lock A friend recently posted on social media that he had gone to the bookstore, and they were out of Boccaccio's The Decameron. This admittedly English-major-type joke is that Boccaccio's clas... Read More...
On the Death of a Beloved Animal Jean Meade July 23, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Jean McCurdy Meade When we were children, and as we raised our children, we often observed burials in our back yards when a dear pet died. A nephew once asked his Presbyterian Elder mother (my sister) if ... Read More...
Grace and Social Justice Guest Contributor July 22, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Molly Jane Layton “Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church.” So begins Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s compelling book The Cost of Discipleship, written as he grappled with the reality of the German Church’s ... Read More...
On Justice Bishop Daniel Martins July 21, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Daniel Martins The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on May 25 triggered an explosive response across the nation (and beyond) that has riveted attention on the issue of racism —... Read More...
Faith Working in Love: On Christian Commitment to Social Justice Guest Contributor July 20, 2020 ACNA, Commentary, Ethics By Ian Olson Indignation has been simmering for generations, building with every act of injustice and compounded by the public’s failure to grasp the scope of the problem. And now it’s boiling over across ou... Read More...
