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From the Ashes We Will Rise: The Power of Ash Wednesday

Guest Contributor
February 17, 2021
Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church
By James Richardson Ash Wednesday 2018 dawned like no other in my lifetime. A few short months earlier, fires had raged through Sonoma, Napa, and Lake counties north of San Francisco, merging into what be... Read More...

The Way of Love: Turn

Charlie Clauss
February 17, 2021
Commentary, The Episcopal Church, The Way of Love
Part of a series on The Way of Love. Other previous entries are available here. By Charlie Clauss Presiding Bishop Curry should be applauded for his work to bring the Episcopal Church the program, The Way... Read More...

Newman on Self-deception and Self-knowledge

Mac Stewart
July 25, 2019
Commentary, Contributors, The Episcopal Church
The way truly to know ourselves is not idly to look within ourselves, but rather to look away from ourselves at the one who calls us by name, who commands us to love him by loving our neighbor, who sends us into the vineyard to work today.

Ashes to Go? Context and Rationale

Fr. Matthew S.C. Olver
March 5, 2019
Liturgy, The Episcopal Church
Ashes to Go can be a useful evangelistic tool, assuming that the context of the gospel in the prayer book liturgy can be legitimately maintained.

Clergy: Don’t Apologize for Lent

Benjamin Guyer
March 5, 2019
Liturgy, The Episcopal Church
We all need Lent more than we know.

Renewing the Art of Holy Dying

Calvin Lane
February 6, 2019
Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church
How might we encourage faith and trust in Christ in the final hour? How might we minister to bodies we believe will rise again? How might we convey the mercy of God to those whose strength is gone?

On Love and Lent

Guest Contributor
February 14, 2018
Commentary
Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday have one primary focus in common: love that comes from God.

Dementia strikes my younger brother

Richard Kew
January 12, 2018
Commentary
Reason tells me that there is little more I could have done for Chris, yet remorse lingers.
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