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Community Member Douglas LeBlanc

Douglas LeBlanc

I am senior editor of The Living Church, and by God’s grace I have experienced the Church through its different streams.

During my childhood, my family attended St. Luke’s Church in Baton Rouge. There I learned a reverence for God in several years of serving as an acolyte.

Through the charismatic renewal of the 1970s, the Lord brought the gospel alive in our family. During my college years, I came to understand myself as an evangelical through InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

I have covered religion for the Morning Advocate in Baton Rouge, edited a magazine for Compassion International, joined the church’s vigorous discussions of morality and theology through Episcopalians United, worked as an associate editor of Christianity Today, and joined the staff of The Living Church. My one book, written at the urging of my late friend Phyllis Tickle, is Tithing: Test Me in This (Thomas Nelson, 2010).

My work has appeared in the collections Changing Boundaries: The Best Religion News Writing (Seabury, 2005) and Classical Techniques, Contemporary Arguments (Longman, 2006). My wife, Monica, and I attend St. Matthew’s Church in Richmond, Virginia.

St. Luke the Stylist

Douglas LeBlanc
February 11, 2018
Good Book Club
Luke provides drama, humor, and poignant moments. Amid all his other achievements, he is one of the most elegant stylists in the pages of Scripture.

Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968

Douglas LeBlanc
January 15, 2018
Commentary, The Episcopal Church

“Grant that your Church, following the example of your prophet Martin Luther King, may resist oppression in the name of your love, and may secure for all your children the blessed liberty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Wilmer Woodfork’s hand of kindness

Douglas LeBlanc
October 6, 2017
Commentary
Wilmer bound my emotional wounds. He broadened my understanding of his world.

Serenity now: Reinhold Niebuhr for brittle times

Douglas LeBlanc
September 8, 2017
Movies, Reviews & Culture
It’s a source of whimsy to see Reinhold Niebuhr in the spotlight during the early months of Donald Trump’s presidency.

Neil Gorsuch: Pro-life Episcopalian

Douglas LeBlanc
March 23, 2017
Books, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church
Someday, perhaps, it will no longer be considered provocative for a Supreme Court nominee to believe that all human life is intrinsically valuable.

Mystery man

Douglas LeBlanc
March 2, 2017
Books, Movies, Music, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church
Burnett, like Bob Dylan, seems omnipresent in popular culture but guards his offstage life with such care that he remains largely a mystery.

An end to endorsements

Douglas LeBlanc
November 4, 2016
Commentary, The Episcopal Church
This year’s long presidential campaign has felt considerably longer because of the many endorsements, retracted endorsements, suspended endorsements, resurrected endorsements, and counter-endorsements.

Web-based coffee chatter

Douglas LeBlanc
August 8, 2016
Commentary
Podcasts do not substitute for conversation, but they’re a rewarding supplement. The podcasts I highlight here help me feel connected in an age of atomization.
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