Watch this space: New website coming, another year passes, promises delivered
Get ready for some updates. We're not posting new material at Covenant for the next week, in preparation for our new website. Here's a review of the past year.
Walking and talking: roundup of 25 “Primates” responses
By Matt Townsend
Official and unofficial responses to the meeting have poured out, making clear that many within the Anglican Communion are walking and talking.
Rumors of Communion’s demise have been greatly exaggerated
John Martin has just reported on the Primates' Meeting at The Living Church: "Primates suspend TEC over same sex decisions." The report comes in the wake of a released, preliminary statement from the Primates, ... Read More...
Witnessing
A report from the banks of mighty Gills Creek in Columbia, South Carolina.
In the wee hours of Sunday, October 4, my phone's National Weather Service Alert passed along a message I'd never seen before. "Civi... Read More...
Technical difficulties
It is a sad truth of our time that all things digital swiftly wear out.
Fully Alive responds critically to Marriage Task Force
The report contains serious historical, methodological, and theological flaws, and we contend that the proposed changes obscure the nature of marriage.
Meet the magazine behind the weblog
Our parent magazine, The Living Church, invites all readers of Covenant to sign up for a free six-month subscription.
In continuous publication since 1878, The Living Church served throughout the twentieth c... Read More...
Quiet reforms: the Vatican and priestly marriage
Without announcement (and with almost as little notice), a Vatican reform was published in the official directory of the Holy See: it plain states that the Eastern churches in Communion with Rome may have a married presbyterate anywhere in the world they happen to be.