The Second Commandment: Imagination and Contemplation Mac Stewart August 26, 2020 Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Ten Commandments, The Episcopal Church Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Mac Stewart One of my favorite TV shows as a little kid was Reading Rainbow. In a book, the theme song said, you can go twice as high; you can be a king and l... Read More...
A Deadly Kind of Calling Jordan Hillebert August 13, 2020 Church in Wales, Commentary, Ministry By Jordan Hillebert Augustine wept at his ordination. He had arrived in the ancient seaport of Hippo, in part, to avoid becoming a priest. The Catholic Church in North Africa was at that time a relatively... Read More...
Augustinian Thoughts on the Bible and Humility Joey Royal July 29, 2020 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Joey Royal Augustine of Hippo, teacher of rhetoric, admirer of Cicero, initially found the Bible crude and unsophisticated. He found both the form and the content of the Bible to be a stumbling block, and initially refused to believe something so unrefin... Read More...
Enmity Bishop John Bauerschmidt July 6, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By John Bauerschmidt Enmity is defined as “deep-seated unfriendliness accompanied by readiness to quarrel or fight; hostility; antagonism” (Funk & Wagnall’s Standard College Dictionary). As a state of be... Read More...
(Don’t) Take and Eat: The Eucharist and Spiritual Reception Guest Contributor April 2, 2020 Commentary, Ministry, Ressourcement By Junius Johnson It is a strange moment in the life of the Church: to show love to our neighbors we refrain from what is most vital in our outreach to them, namely, meeting together to celebrate word and sa... Read More...
Interpreting a Strange New World Jordan Hillebert December 18, 2019 Bible, Church in Wales, Commentary, Contributors, Ministry, Ressourcement Rather than acting as a signpost to the strange new world of Scripture, the sermon all-too-often obstructs our view of the Bible’s terrain. We have lost sight of the strange; our pews remain fixed in the familiar.
God, Sex, and the Restless Hearts of Fleabag Zac Koons December 3, 2019 Contributors, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church, TV Fleabag paints a nuanced portrait of the soul’s condition in the secular age.
The Elusively Unitary Church Christopher Wells November 25, 2019 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Editorial, The Episcopal Church Is there some way to sort out these varying approaches, perhaps as a contribution to the healing of divisions among Episcopalians and Anglicans more broadly, thence perhaps as a service to the one Church of Christ?
