How to Prepare a Sermon (In Nine Not-Always-Easy Steps) Bishop Daniel Martins October 7, 2020 Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Daniel Martins As I peer over the ledge and stare down the final few months before becoming best friends with the Church Pension Fund, I am aware that part of my legacy (for whatever such things are worth... Read More...
Walking Through Morning Prayer Jean Meade October 6, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Jean McCurdy Meade We often think of the Christian life as a journey, a Pilgrim’s Progress to the Celestial City, in the words of John Bunyan, or the race that we run to win the crown we are promised as S... Read More...
Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic Rite Revisited, Part 3 Nathan Jennings October 5, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Ressourcement, The Episcopal Church A Eucharistic Prayer By Nathan Jennings and Richelle Thompson In this series, we offer prayers edited from the corpus of Jeremy Taylor as examples of alternative liturgical texts deriving from local liturgi... Read More...
The Trials of Returning to Worship Guest Contributor October 2, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Shirley O’Shea It had been more than five months since I had entered a sanctuary when I returned to church. Before the coronavirus pandemic necessitated the suspension of worship services, I would drive 2... Read More...
A Thicker Constellation of Vocation Guest Contributor October 1, 2020 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By John Sundara It’s become commonplace to talk about vocation. In many ordination processes, the discerner is expected to articulate their vocation to the priesthood. Many college ministries help graduating... 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...
The Dangerous Pleasures of an Intellectual Life Neil Dhingra September 29, 2020 Books, Commentary, Roman Catholic Church By Neil Dhingra In her Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, the St. John’s College tutor Zena Hitz presents an engagingly diverse (and often imprisoned) set of thinkers: Dorothy Day... Read More...
Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic Rite Revisited, Part 2 Nathan Jennings September 28, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Ressourcement, The Episcopal Church Material for the Holy Communion By Nathan Jennings and Richelle Thompson In this series, we offer prayers edited from the corpus of Jeremy Taylor as examples of alternative liturgical texts deriving from lo... Read More...
