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Ephraim Radner

Ephraim Radner is a priest in the Episcopal Church (Diocese of Colorado) and professor of historical theology at Wycliffe College, an Anglican seminary affiliated with the University of Toronto. His doctorate from Yale University is in theology.

Ephraim grew up in Berkeley, California, and studied music and art history before going to seminary. Following ordination and work in Burundi (East Africa), he served congregations in Brooklyn, Cleveland, New Haven, Stamford, and Pueblo. He has taught at Yale University and Iliff Seminary, and done teaching stints in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Singapore, and Egypt.

He has written and edited several books, including The End of the Church (about how the Holy Spirit works in Church division), Spirit and Nature (about how the Holy Spirit is an intrinsically disputed actor), Hope Among the Fragments (how we live in a divided Church), and a theological commentary on Leviticus.  Other books include Time and the Word (on biblical hermeneutics), A Time to Keep  (on what it means to be a creature).  A new book on modern pneumatology, A Profound Ignorance, will appear in late 2019.

He lives in Toronto with his wife, the Rev. Annette Brownlee.  They have two grown children.

Divine Irreplaceability

The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
December 15, 2020
Commentary, The Episcopal Church
By Ephraim Radner One of the most difficult things I have done as a pastor is to stand beside people as they face a terrible problem’s irresolvability. I’ve felt guilty, even, in enabling a person’s admissio... 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...

Abraham and Sarah, Slaveholders

The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
July 31, 2020
Commentary, Ethics, Exegesis, The Episcopal Church
By Ephraim Radner Abraham and Sarah were slaveholders. Eliezer and Hagar were their slaves. The following is but a brief reflection on how we have interpreted this uncomfortable fact. It offers no grand clai... Read More...

The Questions that Remain

The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
May 6, 2020
Commentary, Ecclesiology, Liturgy, Ministry, The Episcopal Church
By Ephraim Radner I’m glad some folks took time to read my little piece, raising the question of whether live-streaming worship is a good. It doesn’t bother me at all that many would object to things I said ... Read More...

Should We Live-Stream Worship? Maybe Not.

The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
March 20, 2020
Ecclesiology, Ministry, Tech, The Episcopal Church
Should we live stream worship at this time? Maybe not. At least we should think about why, to what end, and with what consequences.

The Parable of the Past

The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
February 17, 2020
Commentary, Contributors, The Episcopal Church
Bit by bit, our links to significant episodes of human existence are dissolving.

Reading Scripture Well (Part 2)

The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
January 15, 2020
Bible, Commentary, Contributors, Ministry, The Episcopal Church
In the broadest sense, figural reading is a long-term visa and a rail-pass rolled up into one, that opens up pathways across the extraordinary terrain of the Bible, in a way that includes all reality.  

Reading Scripture Well (Part 1)

The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
January 14, 2020
Bible, Commentary, Contributors, The Episcopal Church
Reading Scripture as if it were primarily “about God” certainly yields an array of important insights.
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