Martin Luther’s comfortable words The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore captures some of the beauty in Luther’s life.
A short, 2,000-page breviary By the 1940s St. John’s Abbey became a showpiece and a center for robust and engaging liturgical celebration.
Methodists and Anglicans: Lingering differences Bishops, creeds, Eucharist — Anglican and Methodist stances toward these continue to differ.
Methodists and Anglicans: Zeal and patience The healing of Anglican-Methodist division requires an honesty about our differences and our history.
A place in the order of things My grandfather died two weeks ago, a few months short of his 89th birthday, in the same room where he was born. Most every night of his long life, he slept under the same roof, in the farmhouse where his parents had settled just after their marriage.
Bringing back the ’Gesimas: A liturgical proposal Pruned of the Gesimas, Lent is a far less coherent season. Ash Wednesday comes out of the blue, as congregants spent the Sunday prior contemplating the splendors of the Holy Mount.
Tightly woven: Anglican parishes and religious orders When I look at my cross from Ascot Priory, I thank God for those nuns whose prayers sustain the work I do.
St. Luke’s, bivocational priests, and Fr. Holder Bivocational ministry is widely touted as our future model in the Episcopal Church. The TREC report encouraged exploration of “diverse ways for ordained clergy to make a living inside and outside the Church.” My hope for the conversation was that Fr. Holder could tell me a little more about how this actually works, for the bivocational leader and for the congregation that ministers with him or her.
