Aquinas as Anglican Christopher Wells February 15, 2021 Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church The following short essay appears in a new translation of a minor work of St. Thomas Aquinas: De Sortibus: A Letter to a Friend about the Casting of Lots, trans. Peter Carey (forthcoming in 2021 from Wipf &... Read More...
After the Bp. Love Trial: Does the Episcopal Church Welcome Us? Jordan Hylden December 28, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Jordan Hylden As vocations director in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, I talk with a lot of young people discerning a call to ordained ministry. Very often, they’re evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail, ... Read More...
Movement of Unity Christopher Wells December 21, 2020 Commentary, Editorial, The Episcopal Church By Christopher Wells Approaching the end of this strange year, it has felt momentous to us at TLC to plan boldly for the future, as we have done in Strategic Plan 2020. Shepherded to completion by our board and enthusiastically endorsed by our foundation of... Read More...
On Returning to the New World Guest Contributor February 11, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church The rich variety we observe in church choices used to mean that ecumenism was an obvious project, though enthusiasm for it seems to have waned since the initial optimism of the early 20th century
A Love Note to Anglicanism Guest Contributor January 20, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Roman Catholic Church Though I find myself today a Byzantine rite priest in communion with Rome, it was in the Anglicanism of my youth that I was formed in many important and providential ways.
Why Can’t We Be Friends? On Anglicans in America Guest Contributor November 7, 2019 ACNA, Commentary, Ecclesiology While I certainly do not speak for all young Anglicans, I believe that I am not alone. A number of my colleagues and friends have expressed openness to — and even interest in — cross-jurisdictional friendship and collaboration. It would be naïve to suggest that such activity is a simple road to reunification; but it would be jaded to deny that it could be a starting point.
ARCIC III, Walking Together on the Way: Learning to Be the Church—Local, Regional, Universal Bishop John Bauerschmidt August 13, 2019 Analysis, Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church ARCIC III is convinced that, just as a return to the sources of tradition in Scripture, liturgy, and the Patristic and Scholastic periods (ressourcement) has been renewing both Anglican and Roman Catholic theology since the middle of the last century, so critical self-examination through the prism of ecumenical dialogue and receptive learning can deepen the renewal and participation of the Church in the Trinitarian communion of God.
Truth Springs Up: New Beginnings Mark Michael July 23, 2019 Commentary, Editorial, The Episcopal Church I hope that The Living Church will continue to bear witness to the truth of God that springs up from the earth. It is our aim to seek out and lift up the ways that ordinary men and women respond to God’s call to proclaim the Gospel and to serve their neighbors in love.
