Raising Your Church’s Profile in Your Town By Neal Michell In my role as canon to the ordinary, it was my responsibility to visit all the churches in our diocese on a consistent basis. My standard practice for churches in rural areas and small towns ... Read More...
How the Pandemic Made Me a Better Preacher; or Learning from Richard Greenham Study. Pray. Have one point about the texts and get to it. Be winsome and authentic. Start the Creed. By Calvin Lane While I have no desire to add to the veritable avalanche of posts, essays, and podcasts a... Read More...
On Doubt and Belief By Jordan Hillebert The Church is not always great at dealing with doubt. We tend to swing between two extremes. On the one hand, there are some in the Church who are threatened by the slightest whiff of ... Read More...
The Marvel of St. Martin’s, Houston By Christopher Wells On Nov. 10, 1982, Vice President George H.W. Bush found himself in Red Square attending the state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party. Alongside the vice... Read More...
Bring Your Bible to Class — or Church By Wesley Hill As I prepare to begin my 10th year as a seminary professor, I’m going to begin the biblical capstone class I’ll be teaching by recommending that my students consider taking up a habit they’re ... Read More...
What Should Bishops Do? By Leander S. Harding Not long after I was ordained some 40 years ago this June, our bishop took a leave for health reasons. After about six months he was back in office and a changed man with a winsome comb... Read More...
Negative Capability: A Pastoral Virtue What does the poet John Keats have to teach the pastors of the church? John Bauerschmidt expands on a suggestion of Eugene Peterson, and suggests how we need to maximize our “negative capability.”
A Reflection Upon Retirement By Daniel Martins Not long ago, I authored a book review, appearing in The Living Church, of a collection of reflections, by a dozen or so retired priests of the Church of England, on the experience of retir... Read More...
