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Are Kinship and Marriage Synonymous?

July 16, 2019

Review: Modern Kinship: A Queer Guide to Christian Marriage, by David and Constantino Khalaf (Westminster John Knox Press. Pp. 232. $16) By Victor Lee Austin The Khalafs are a norm-busting, deeply traditi... Read More...

A Grace Peculiar: Toward a Theology of Vocation

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July 11, 2019

Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church, Vocation in the Episcopal Church

The peculiar Christlike shape that one’s life thus takes on is one’s vocation. And vocation is the outworking of grace in the life of a human being.

The Scope of the Marriage Canon: Against the Chancellor’s Memo

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July 8, 2019

Analysis, Anglican Church of Canada, Approaching General Synod, Commentary

The chancellor’s memo specifically included a means of bypassing the marriage canon regardless of the outcome of General Synod voting.

Lay Ministry as a Manifestation of Baptism

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July 3, 2019

Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church, Vocation in the Episcopal Church

In studying confirmation, though, I grew more and more certain of one truth: I had already received every gift and commissioning I needed for ministry in baptism.

Valuing the Vocation of Lay Ministers

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June 26, 2019

Ministry, The Episcopal Church, Vocation in the Episcopal Church

When someone asks me about priestly ordination, the underlying message is that the work that I am currently doing would be more valuable or whole if it were performed by a priest.

“Tend My Flock”: The Pastoral Core of Ordained Ministry

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June 19, 2019

Ministry, The Episcopal Church, Vocation in the Episcopal Church

I regularly hear fellow priests talk about how their principal responsibilities are to plan and execute Sunday worship. Lay people can visit the sick members of their parishes, they tell me. After all, priests are trained for other things.

Bishop Straight Tongue

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June 14, 2019

Commentary, Orthodox Church

Henry Benjamin Whipple – first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, evangelist and defender of the Minnesota Indians, and the man who bent the ear of America’s greatest president to stop a mass execution.

Gifted, Willing, and Needed: Reframing Call Culture in the Episcopal Church

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June 12, 2019

Analysis, Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church, Vocation in the Episcopal Church

We should understand a call as someone being gifted, willing, and needed.

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Tradition for Teens

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Invitation to London

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Caring for Creation

Are Kinship and Marriage Synonymous?

A Grace Peculiar: Toward a Theology of Vocation

The Scope of the Marriage Canon: Against the Chancellor’s Memo

Lay Ministry as a Manifestation of Baptism

Valuing the Vocation of Lay Ministers

“Tend My Flock”: The Pastoral Core of Ordained Ministry

Bishop Straight Tongue

Gifted, Willing, and Needed: Reframing Call Culture in the Episcopal Church

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