The Sixth Commandment: Thou Shalt not Murder Jonathan Turtle September 9, 2020 Anglican Church of Canada, Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Ethics, Ten Commandments Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Jonathan Turtle At face value the prohibition against murder is perhaps the easiest one to keep. As a moral law that is written on our hearts and that can be a... Read More...
Shame and Glory of the Evangelicals Guest Contributor September 8, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Peter C. Schellhase Evangelical Anglicanism has among its heroes those who took a courageous stand against social injustice. These include William Wilberforce, the English MP who devoted much of his polit... Read More...
Fifth Commandment: Honor Thy Father & Thy Mother Jean Meade September 4, 2020 Catechesis, Commentary, Ethics, Ten Commandments, The Episcopal Church Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Jean McCurdy Meade Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, i... Read More...
The Fourth Commandment: The Sabbath — Fulfilled But Not Obsolete Abigail Woolley Cutter September 2, 2020 Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Ethics, Ten Commandments, The Episcopal Church Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Abigail Woolley Cutter Of the ten, the command to observe Sabbath has undoubtedly been the most difficult for Christians to interpret — and therefore perhaps t... Read More...
“Past its Teeming Time”: Lessons from Colonial Barbados about Environmental Racism Mark Clavier August 25, 2020 Church in Wales, Commentary, Ethics, Ministry By Mark Clavier When John Atkins, a British royal navy surgeon, visited Barbados in 1722, he was astonished by what he found. He had heard about the wealth and fertility of the island, then a leading produce... Read More...
The First Commandment Benjamin Guyer August 20, 2020 Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Ethics, Ten Commandments, The Episcopal Church Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Benjamin M. Guyer I am the Lord your God who brought you out of bondage. You shall have no other gods but me. (BCP p. 350) Is the first commandment really a com... Read More...
The Ten Commandments: Timeless, Just Not the Way you Think Eugene Schlesinger August 19, 2020 Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Ethics, Ten Commandments, The Episcopal Church By Eugene R. Schlesinger The Ten Commandments, recorded in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy, are the centerpiece of the Mosaic legislation, and have long been a major focus of Christian catechesis (alongs... Read More...
On Watching Our Language Sarah Cornwell August 3, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, Tech, The Episcopal Church By Sarah Cornwell In the United States, we are living in a time of anger and fear. You may have felt some measure of this yourself. In general, these are not considered to be positive emotions, but in certai... Read More...
