Facing Episcopal Church Decline – the Latest Numbers The Rev. Dr. David Goodhew October 19, 2020 Church of England, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By David Goodhew The Episcopal Church has published new statistics from the annual parochial reports, covering 2019. They build on what we have hitherto learnt and give us a significant steer as to what is l... Read More...
New Millennium, New Church Richard Kew October 19, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Richard Kew It is thirty years since the late Bishop Roger White and I authored New Millennium, New Church, the first of several books in which we challenged the church to think seriously about what the f... Read More...
What Mentally Ill Persons Wish their Clergy Understood Guest Contributor October 16, 2020 Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Shirley O’Shea In the summer of 2016, I experienced a profound bipolar depression that made daily functioning for me impossible. The breakdown — this word best describes my experience — had been coming fo... Read More...
The “New Normal”? Observations for Church Leaders from the COVID-19 Lockdown Neal Michell October 15, 2020 Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Neal Michell COVID-19 shutdown feels like walking on a frozen pond with cracks all around us. Church leaders are so busy trying to keep their congregants together and adjust to the changes wrought by the ... Read More...
To hush as the shadows lengthen Calvin Lane October 14, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Calvin Lane I am not a good sleeper, a challenge since childhood. I used to watch my younger brother fall blissfully asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow. To this day, falling asleep is terribly hard... Read More...
Grammar of Faith: The New Adam George Sumner October 13, 2020 Commentary, The Episcopal Church By George Sumner Strive to enter through the narrow gate. Sometimes history and culture come to cast a question in a different light. The late George Lindbeck, my Doktorvater, once commented that in the pre-m... Read More...
Life before Birth According to Scripture Jean Meade October 12, 2020 Bible, Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Jean McCurdy Meade While Christians adopt different stances on how to best address the morality of abortion, we should all bear in mind what the Bible implies about God’s role in conceiving human life by ... Read More...
How to Be an Angry Christian, According to Thomas Aquinas Stewart Clem October 9, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Stewart Clem People are angry. Given everything that’s happened in 2020, combined with the unlimited opportunities created by the internet for expressing our anger, this might be the angriest year in all ... Read More...
