Being Distracted by the Right Things Sam Keyes November 27, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Music, Roman Catholic Church By Sam Keyes Three times now in an introductory course on sacraments and liturgy, I’ve asked students to reflect on a playlist of Church music that I assembled for them. To do such a thing at all challenges ... Read More...
On Hunting Chip Prehn November 25, 2020 Books, Commentary, Ethics, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church By Chip Prehn Sir Roger Scruton, who died too young last January, came late to fox-hunting but made up for this by becoming one of England’s most avid sportsmen and lovers of the chase. About 2001, I picked ... Read More...
Billy Joe Shaver and Music for the Land of Nod John Mason Lock November 24, 2020 Commentary, Music, The Episcopal Church By John Mason Lock With the political morass we've been enduring during this election cycle and the pressures of leading a church in a pandemic, I was about a week late in learning of the passing of one of m... Read More...
Two Anglican(ish) Novels: Can We Live Without Christianity? Victor Austin November 17, 2020 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church By Victor Lee Austin Rose Macauley’s 1956 novel, The Towers of Trebizond, opens with an Oxford woman coming home from High Mass on her camel, and continues as a sort of dazzling high wire literary act of Bri... Read More...
Books: Forgotten Friends The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner November 16, 2020 Books, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Ephraim Radner When I worked in Burundi in the early 1980s, my house stood across the road from the local school. One day, a young man came by and introduced himself. He was a teacher at the school, a Rwa... Read More...
Tread Underfoot our Ghostly Foe Guest Contributor October 30, 2020 ACNA, Commentary, Reviews & Culture By Ian Olson The present age may be a secular one, but it remains as haunted as ever. Haunted by the specters of our national past, haunted by reflexes and drives we do not understand, haunted by seemingly i... Read More...
William Bartram’s Travels Bishop John Bauerschmidt October 23, 2020 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church By John Bauerschmidt I first came to know of William Bartram in fictional form, as a minor character who appears at the beginning of Kenneth Robert’s novel Lydia Bailey. Bartram has what amounts to a cameo r... Read More...
The Show Goes On Guest Contributor September 30, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Music, The Episcopal Church By Jonathan Jameson I’ve spent a large portion of the last eighteen years of my life traveling from town to town and playing songs to groups of people gathered in dimly-lit clubs. Somewhere along the way I b... Read More...
