He’s Asking Your Permission Victor Austin April 9, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Victor Lee Austin None of the disciples refused the cup or the bread. But they could have. “This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.” He says, “This is my body which is given ... Read More...
The Gospel of Uncleanness Guest Contributor April 9, 2020 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Hannah Armidon The Old Testament was doing social distancing before it was cool. Pick up a dead animal? Forget washing your hands — take a whole bath, wash your clothes, and you’re unclean until evening. ... Read More...
Life in the Shadow of the Cross Elisabeth Kincaid April 8, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Elisabeth Kincaid In his sermon for the sixth Sunday of Lent in Parochial and Plain Sermons, preached on April 9, 1841, John Henry Newman describes the cross of Christ as the measure of the world, the key... Read More...
On Death, Grief, and Redemptive Suffering Guest Contributor April 8, 2020 Commentary, The Episcopal Church By William Yale My mother died of pancreatic cancer at age fifty-six; I was fifteen. For ten months, she endured chemotherapy and radiation treatment, until she collapsed and was hospitalized. She spent two ... Read More...
On Presence, Real and Impaired Guest Contributor April 7, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Kevin J. Moroney For my own part, I have concluded that virtual attendance is real presence, thus virtual attendance truly constitutes an assembly of the baptized. The above is a quote from my recent essay... Read More...
Richard Hooker, Principled Pluralist Christopher Wells April 7, 2020 Ecclesiology, Editorial, The Episcopal Church Hooker bequeaths to Anglicans, even outside England, a set of questions that remain unavoidable.
Bread & Roses & Resurrection Guest Contributor April 6, 2020 Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church Trusting dying is not giving up, it is giving to God. Death is one end, but it is not the end.
Palm Sunday and Death’s Defeat Fr. Clint Wilson April 5, 2020 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Clint Wilson When they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. Zechariah 12:10 Today is... Read More...
