The Blessed Virgin: The Air we Breathe Mac Stewart May 19, 2020 Commentary, Poetry, The Episcopal Church By Mac Stewart I recently came across a rather marvelous gem from the 19th-century Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins. It is a poem entitled “The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe.” While Marian ... Read More...
Christmas Zeal Mac Stewart January 2, 2020 Commentary, Contributors, The Episcopal Church Christmas is a time when Christians are particularly susceptible to one of the perennial temptations of religion: domesticating the gospel.
On Baptism Mac Stewart November 12, 2019 Commentary, Contributors, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church Baptism is an apocalypse.
Newman on Self-deception and Self-knowledge Mac Stewart July 25, 2019 Commentary, Contributors, The Episcopal Church The way truly to know ourselves is not idly to look within ourselves, but rather to look away from ourselves at the one who calls us by name, who commands us to love him by loving our neighbor, who sends us into the vineyard to work today.
Gregory the Great on Compassion and Contemplation Mac Stewart May 3, 2019 Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church What is the relationship between pastoral ministry and the Christian vocation of contemplation?
The Wonderful and Strange Name of Jesus Mac Stewart January 1, 2019 Liturgy, The Episcopal Church When we say the name Jesus, we are identifying someone who is incommunicably singular and inexhaustibly strange.
Degrees of Beauty Mac Stewart October 9, 2018 Art, Books, Liturgy, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church Visible and audible beauty is not a gratuitous irradiation of a prior and more central value, but rather adheres directly to the material objects because of their form and color.
Penitential Solidarity Mac Stewart August 23, 2018 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ethics, The Episcopal Church As we continue to discover abuse, Pope Francis and others are rightly leading the whole Church in this corporate confession of sin.
