The Mirror of the Psalms Fr. Bryan Owen November 20, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Bryan Owen Every once in a while, we hear words from a psalm in our corporate worship that trouble or shock us. It’s pretty rare that this happens in the eucharistic lectionary appointed for Sundays. But ... Read More...
Sancta Salus Michael Cover November 19, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Michael B. Cover Twenty years from now, scholars of American civil religion — a term which covers everything from the Deism of the founding fathers to the “blood hymns” of the Civil War to the role of pro... Read More...
Drawing Near at a Distance Mac Stewart November 18, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Mac Stewart I live as a guest in a Catholic religious community. Every Sunday evening, the community adores Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. At the end of this time of adoration, the community members rece... Read More...
Two Anglican(ish) Novels: Can We Live Without Christianity? Victor Austin November 17, 2020 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church By Victor Lee Austin Rose Macauley’s 1956 novel, The Towers of Trebizond, opens with an Oxford woman coming home from High Mass on her camel, and continues as a sort of dazzling high wire literary act of Bri... Read More...
Books: Forgotten Friends The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner November 16, 2020 Books, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Ephraim Radner When I worked in Burundi in the early 1980s, my house stood across the road from the local school. One day, a young man came by and introduced himself. He was a teacher at the school, a Rwa... Read More...
Welcome to Pre-Advent Stewart Clem November 13, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Stewart Clem No, Target: we do not agree that Christmas begins on November 1. You must be thinking of All Saints’ Day. Christmas begins after first vespers on December 24. People have been complain... Read More...
On Bishop Love Bishop Daniel Martins November 12, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church By Daniel Martins First, a disclaimer: I am a bishop member of the Communion Partners, and much of what I write here concerns the Communion Partners directly. While I am reasonably confident that most or all... Read More...
Thoughts on Our Election and the Cause and Remedy of Our Present Discontents Philip Turner November 11, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Philip Turner As I sit down to write, though former Vice President Biden is slightly ahead, no clear winner of this election has been established. Indeed, it may be sometime before the outcome is firmly s... Read More...
