Blessed Virgin Mary

Trauma and the Eucharist

March 18, 2019

Books, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church

All the sacraments are traumatic for us. Our body is no longer completely our own, our present is interrupted by a foretaste of the eschatological banquet, and the sacraments ultimately are beyond any adequate verbal description.

A Choice that Changed the World

Jean Meade

December 22, 2018

Bible, Commentary, Exegesis, The Episcopal Church

Gabriel announced that Mary was chosen, not that she was already pregnant.

Rewarding, Not Easy, Listening

Benjamin Guyer

October 2, 2018

Music, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church

The Majesty of the Flesh and Mother of God are punctuated with lyrics rooted in Bozeman’s Orthodox faith, which makes his lyrical voice distinct in America’s musical scene.

The Catholic Church Needs Mothers

Guest Contributor

August 23, 2018

Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ethics, The Episcopal Church

The Catholic Church is broken in a way that only Jesus can heal. But I have a suggestion for what might help.

St. Mary, Icon of the Church

Stewart Clem

August 22, 2018

Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church

May God give us faith, that we too can follow Mary into heaven, and declare with confidence, “my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.”

What Mary Received in the Eucharist

Jonathan Mitchican

May 15, 2018

Commentary, Liturgy

If we ever take the Eucharist for granted, meditating on Mary’s relationship with the sacrament would be a fitting remedy.

An unheard-of greeting: The Annunciation

Zachary Guiliano

March 25, 2017

Bible, Church of England, Liturgy

The blessed Virgin received the rays of “the sun” when she conceived the Lord. That is, the divinity of our Redeemer cloaked itself with the covering of human nature as with a shade, and by this means a virgin’s womb was able to bear him.

The meditation of Simeon

Mac Stewart

February 9, 2017

Liturgy, The Episcopal Church

Because of His visitation, we may no longer desire God as if He were lacking: our redemption is no longer a question of pursuit but of surrender to Him who is always and everywhere present.

St. Augustine on 'Caring for the dead'

How to Be Perfect

Social Media and the Christian Life

Donna Reed and the Road of Meekness: It’s a Wonderful Life

Anglicanism Defined: Three Crises

Gregory the Great on Compassion and Contemplation

Anglicans, Methodists, and Evangelicals

Are we done with the '79 prayer book?

Invoking the Trinity: An Expansive Liturgy

Tradition for Teens

Notes for Next Year’s Easter Vigil

ACNA’s Renewed Coverdale Psalter

‘Honest to God’ and the Language of Death and Mourning

Christ’s Harrowing of Hell

What If the Lord Really Speaks?

‘And Now Our Watch Has Ended’: Game of Thrones and Disappointing Endings

Liturgy and Individualism

A Woman Can Be a Doctor

An Enchanted Wood: Life at L’Arche

Prayer and the Early Medieval Monk