Being Distracted by the Right Things Sam Keyes November 27, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Music, Roman Catholic Church By Sam Keyes Three times now in an introductory course on sacraments and liturgy, I’ve asked students to reflect on a playlist of Church music that I assembled for them. To do such a thing at all challenges ... Read More...
How We Tell the Story (Or, How Christian Nationalism Makes Racism Invisible) Abigail Woolley Cutter November 26, 2020 Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Abigail Woolley Cutter We declared our independence on July 4, 1776. We fought and defeated the British in the Revolutionary War. We expanded across the West. We won World War II. Statements like the... Read More...
On Hunting Chip Prehn November 25, 2020 Books, Commentary, Ethics, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church By Chip Prehn Sir Roger Scruton, who died too young last January, came late to fox-hunting but made up for this by becoming one of England’s most avid sportsmen and lovers of the chase. About 2001, I picked ... Read More...
Billy Joe Shaver and Music for the Land of Nod John Mason Lock November 24, 2020 Commentary, Music, The Episcopal Church By John Mason Lock With the political morass we've been enduring during this election cycle and the pressures of leading a church in a pandemic, I was about a week late in learning of the passing of one of m... Read More...
How We Understand Ourselves George Sumner November 23, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church By George Sumner As a member of the Communion Partners, I recognize and agree with recent essays by my friends Canon Jordan Hylden and Bishop Dan Martins. I mean this essay to be complementary to their refle... Read More...
The Mirror of the Psalms Fr. Bryan Owen November 20, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Bryan Owen Every once in a while, we hear words from a psalm in our corporate worship that trouble or shock us. It’s pretty rare that this happens in the eucharistic lectionary appointed for Sundays. But ... Read More...
Sancta Salus Michael Cover November 19, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Michael B. Cover Twenty years from now, scholars of American civil religion — a term which covers everything from the Deism of the founding fathers to the “blood hymns” of the Civil War to the role of pro... Read More...
Drawing Near at a Distance Mac Stewart November 18, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Mac Stewart I live as a guest in a Catholic religious community. Every Sunday evening, the community adores Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. At the end of this time of adoration, the community members rece... Read More...
