A Book for Our Time Guest Contributor February 23, 2021 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church Michael Mayne’s A Year Lost and Found By Ronald A. Wells About six months into the COVID-19 quarantine, a friend from another part of the country called to ask how I was getting on. I mentioned that a silve... Read More...
“Children, Keep Yourselves from Idols” Guest Contributor January 14, 2021 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church Idolatry By Stephen E. Fowl Baylor University Press 2019. Pp. 180 $34.95. Review by Anthony Petrotta Professor Fowl's argument is clear and concise: idolatry is alive and well, just as it was in the day... Read More...
My Pandemic Reading List: Recommendations from a Contemplative Guest Contributor January 7, 2021 Books, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Marcia Hotchkiss After COVID-19 changed our world last spring, I initially thought not much would change in my life, either. As a contemplative, I believed that I practiced the disciplines of slowing, stillness, and solitude, and I didn’t do that much ru... Read More...
Books: Forgotten Friends The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner November 16, 2020 Books, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Ephraim Radner When I worked in Burundi in the early 1980s, my house stood across the road from the local school. One day, a young man came by and introduced himself. He was a teacher at the school, a Rwa... Read More...
The Priest as Generalist Cole Hartin November 9, 2020 Anglican Church of Canada, Commentary, Ministry By Cole Hartin One of my fears as a pastor is to have my preaching considered “too academic.” I know there is a place for eloquent, learned preaching, but it’s not in most of our cities or towns. On the univ... Read More...
William Bartram’s Travels Bishop John Bauerschmidt October 23, 2020 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church By John Bauerschmidt I first came to know of William Bartram in fictional form, as a minor character who appears at the beginning of Kenneth Robert’s novel Lydia Bailey. Bartram has what amounts to a cameo role in the book, living in retirement on his famil... 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...
A Modern-Day Pastoral Rule Mark Clavier August 14, 2020 Books, Church in Wales, Ministry, Reviews & Culture These will be useful volumes to own — a kind of encyclopedia of pastoral wisdom to dip in and out of and a useful corrective to models of mission and ministry that over-emphasize advocacy or achievement at the expense of personal relationships.
