The Loose Ends of Life
For Rose Macaulay in The Towers of Trebizond, a story of moral seriousness couldn’t afford to tie up everything neatly.
This Source of Doctrine and Unity Requires Our Care
Episcopalians have disagreed about many things over the years, but the prayer book has remained a focus of unity.
The Daily Office
The Daily Office is one of the acknowledged treasures of the Anglican tradition, and a central obligation of the clergy.
The claims of conscience
The conscience is not sovereign. God, who sits as judge on the last day, is sovereign.
Structure, shape, and text
Continuity in prayer book worship
A film honors parish life
‘All Saints’ is commendable in presenting the parish church as the irreplaceable Christian community.
Gathering and scattering in Augustine’s Confessions
For Augustine, the issue was not that there isn’t enough time, but that we are enmeshed in it at all.
Anglicans and the echo of history
There are impulses at work in the Church, on both the right and the left, a desire to sweep away the tired old past and to start over again. This desire is founded on an illusory hope.