“Children, Keep Yourselves from Idols” Guest Contributor January 14, 2021 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church Idolatry By Stephen E. Fowl Baylor University Press 2019. Pp. 180 $34.95. Review by Anthony Petrotta Professor Fowl's argument is clear and concise: idolatry is alive and well, just as it was in the day... Read More...
The Seedbed of Christian Biblical Interpretation Fr. Paul Wheatley January 12, 2021 Books, Commentary, Exegesis, Ressourcement, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church The Commentary of Origen on the Gospel of St Matthew. By Ronald E. Heine First edition. 2 vols. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. ix + 773, $270. Review by Paul D. W... Read More...
My Pandemic Reading List: Recommendations from a Contemplative Guest Contributor January 7, 2021 Books, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Marcia Hotchkiss After COVID-19 changed our world last spring, I initially thought not much would change in my life, either. As a contemplative, I believed that I practiced the disciplines of slowing, sti... Read More...
Reconsidering the Parables of a “Marginal Jew” Garwood Anderson December 10, 2020 Bible, Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables By John P. Meier Yale University Press xiii + 441 pp $65 Review by Garwood P. Anderson When contem... 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...
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...
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...
