Ethics – Covenant

Technopolis

August 19, 2019

Analysis, Church in Wales, Commentary, Ethics

We citizens of Technopolis believe fervently in the supremacy of the will. What we will is how things are. Nothing is chiseled into sacred tablets, nothing has any meaning that we can’t change, nothing is beyond our self-interested exploitation and tinkering. If by an act of collective will we deem something good, then it must be good simply because we’ve deemed it so.

Caring for Creation

Fr. Bryan Owen

August 16, 2019

Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church

Our unique task as stewards and caretakers of “this fragile earth, our island home,” as Eucharistic Prayer C puts it, is to participate in the unfolding of God’s new creation inaugurated in the resurrection of Jesus.

The Defeat Economy

Guest Contributor

August 2, 2019

ACNA, Commentary, Ethics

Amazon’s logo symbolizes totality, and there is seemingly nowhere the “A to Z arrow” does not reach anymore. With the extraordinary means at Amazon’s disposal, everywhere is accessible and almost everything is on offer.

Fruits Worthy of Repentance

Jonathan Turtle

June 27, 2019

Anglican Church of Canada, Approaching General Synod, Commentary, Ethics

Conservative Anglicans in Canada now find themselves in a church in which they are the minority with respect to marriage and human sexuality. Nevertheless, the gospel does not permit us to give up hope or to grow weary in doing good.

Testing the Spirits: Catholicity and the Marriage Amendment

Dane Neufeld

June 25, 2019

Anglican Church of Canada, Approaching General Synod, Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ethics

The vote on the marriage canon amendment is well known, but we will also be considering resolutions on indigenous self-determination and the stewardship of God’s creation. They are all connected.