Books – Covenant

“A Merry Heart Goes All the Day”: Why I’m Reading Walter Scott

February 10, 2020

Books, Commentary, Contributors, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church

Scott invests many of his characters with moral goodness and, occasionally, holiness. His heroes and heroines are inspiring. The sheer degradedness and badness of his anti-heroes leaves the strongest impression. The novels are above all about character.

Towards a Livelier God

Guest Contributor

February 7, 2020

Books, Church of England, Reviews & Culture

Andreas Wagner’s God’s Body, a revision of an earlier German book, is a fascinating and provocative discussion of anthropomorphism, the presentation of God as an embodied person

In Search of Cohesion

Guest Contributor

January 31, 2020

Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture

As much as we would have it be otherwise, we, as Christians, really cannot rely on “nature” to provide an answer to many ethical questions. We are a people united in our belief that our human nature is beloved and capable of union with the divine, but what precisely human nature is, is a truly complicated question.

Simone Weil and the Mission to Modernity

Leander Harding

January 30, 2020

Books, Commentary, Contributors, The Episcopal Church

Simone Weil is a figure who is hard to categorize, a Christian mystic who resisted being baptized, a political philosopher who wrote only one complete book, which bases a theory of political organization on the needs of the human soul.

Intimate Satisfaction

Victor Austin

January 27, 2020

Books, Commentary, The Episcopal Church

I found the fulfillment of my desire for intimacy in its very denial.

Two Perspectives on the Founder of Taizé

Guest Contributor

January 21, 2020

Books, Reviews & Culture

By Andreas Westergren There is a moving image of frère Roger (Roger Schütz), the founder of the Taizé community in southern France, somewhere in a ghetto in the Philippines. Walking on top of a giant rubbish... Read More...