A Striking Proposal for the Revision of the Eucharistic Prayer Eucharistic Prayers By Samuel Wells and Abigail Kocher. Eerdmans. Pp. 365. $40 Review by Robert W. Prichard As the Episcopal Church edges its way toward supplementing or revising the Book of Common Pra... Read More...
The Ascension: Waiting to Inhale By Daniel Martins We all begin our lives as fetuses. We all had the experience of developing in utero and receiving necessary oxygen from our mother’s blood supply by means of an umbilical cord, and we’ve al... Read More...
Bringing Forth Treasure New, Old, and Perplexing By Mark Michael InterVarsity Press’s new 1662 Book of Common Prayer, International Edition surely made it smoothly through all the copyrighting wrangles, but it’s not the first book I have used that merits t... Read More...
Real Presences: A Thought Experiment By George Sumner In his influential book The Household of God, Lesslie Newbigin understood the Church in a manner accommodated to the doctrine of the Trinity. The Church hearing and responding to the Word in... Read More...
I Hate That Hymn By Steve Schlossberg The only thing complained about in church more often than the lousy sermon is the lousy music. Bad preaching we learn to begrudgingly tolerate because we find ourselves without alternati... Read More...
We Are Not Mere Christians (Part 2) Evangelism that is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic By Tricia Lyons Part one of this series considered the disenchanted, non-sacramental character of so much Episcopal life. In this essay I consider the s... Read More...
We Are Not Mere Christians (Part 1) Evangelism that is One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic By Tricia Lyons For the past few decades, in the face of what philosopher Charles Taylor calls the “disenchanted” souls and minds in our pews and walking... Read More...
Too Good to Be True? Reflections on the Resurrection of Jesus By Bryan Owen If it seems too good to be true, it probably is! We’ve all heard and perhaps used that phrase. It can express not only skepticism, but also prudent ... Read More...
