Poems by Maurice Baring Chip Prehn August 10, 2020 Commentary, Poetry, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church By Chip Prehn The first time I read anything by Maurice Baring (1874-1945), I knew deep down that I had “met” a writer unlike any I had experienced before. I had bumped up against an artistic mind and talent... Read More...
They Were Amazed Chip Prehn April 27, 2020 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Chip Prehn What were the disciples expecting to see on that third day? They had been carefully taught by their extraordinary rabbi. He had successfully opened their eyes to doctrines which had been obscur... Read More...
The Usurpation of Information Chip Prehn March 11, 2020 Commentary, Contributors, The Episcopal Church Committed Christian parents and educators must actively resist the tyranny of information in our schools, parishes, and other training venues.
“A Merry Heart Goes All the Day”: Why I’m Reading Walter Scott Chip Prehn February 10, 2020 Books, Commentary, Contributors, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church Scott invests many of his characters with moral goodness and, occasionally, holiness. His heroes and heroines are inspiring. The sheer degradedness and badness of his anti-heroes leaves the strongest impression. The novels are above all about character.
A Good Shepherd Chip Prehn October 23, 2019 Commentary, Contributors, Ministry, The Episcopal Church This good and true shepherd’s interest in and care for all of us who became his “sons” was surely a sign to us that the Good Shepherd had plans for us and was counting on us to be His disciples.
What’s Going On With David Brooks? Chip Prehn August 21, 2019 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church Second Mountain shows that Brooks’s odyssey in faith will be complicated. But why shouldn’t a sincere conversion in twenty-first-century America be complicated or unconventional?
How to Be Perfect Chip Prehn May 21, 2019 Ethics, The Episcopal Church The command to be perfect is only a deeper statement of the startling ethics Jesus presents in the beginning of the chapter in the beatitudes.
Wendell Berry, Poet and Prophet Chip Prehn March 27, 2019 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church Wendell Berry, this great Bard — as great an American voice as Thoreau’s or Whitman’s — assumes that the reality before and all around us in nature is infinitely complex and therefore cannot be fully comprehended by any human intellect.
