Declaration of Dependence Christopher Wells September 24, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Editorial, The Episcopal Church By Christopher Wells All of you brothers over in Africa / Tell all the folks in Egypt, and Israel, too. / Please don’t miss this train at the station. / ‘Cause if you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you. —“Lo... Read More...
Blood of the Black Christ, Shed for All Christopher Wells June 29, 2020 Commentary, Editorial, The Episcopal Church By Christopher Wells All right, I was colored. It was fine. I did not know enough to be afraid or to anticipate in a concrete manner. True, I had heard that colored people were killed and beaten, but so far it... Read More...
A Leader, Not a Follower: Bishop Kemper and Apostolic Ministry Mark Michael May 24, 2020 Commentary, Editorial, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Mark Michael The Sunday after the Ascension, May 24, marks a century and half since the death of the Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, the Episcopal Church’s first missionary bishop. The current crisis won’t allow... Read More...
Wanted: Field Guide to Adjudicate Communion across Distance Christopher Wells April 15, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Editorial, The Episcopal Church By Christopher Wells I come to the conclusion of my series on the visibility and invisibility of the Church (part 1, part 2, part 3). How to draw things together? Let me propose three, programmatic points th... 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.
A Light Infused into the Heart Mark Michael February 26, 2020 Art, Bible, Editorial, Exegesis, The Episcopal Church Francis and Augustine would tell us first that less is more, and that God’s transforming oracles lie closer to hand than we might first expect.
Editorial: Farewell, Methodist Catholicism The Living Church February 5, 2020 Ecclesiology, Editorial The United Methodist Church has heaved with anguish since its General Conference voted last summer to maintain and enforce the traditional definition of marriage in the Book of Discipline. Church leaders hired an experienced mediator, and plans were announced a few weeks ago for an amicable separation, the final decision to be made at a General Conference later in the year.
John Jewel, Confident Visibilist Christopher Wells January 22, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Editorial, The Episcopal Church John Jewel's Apology for the Church of England is a classic of Anglican ecclesiology and a touchstone for understanding the church's visibility.
