Why Go Back to Church? Guest Contributor June 5, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church By Francis H. Wade It is unlikely that Carl Sandberg intended in 1936 to describe the plight of the church in 2020 but his poem “Get Off This Estate” does just that. "Get off this estate." "What for?" "Be... Read More...
Is the Church Essential? Guest Contributor April 29, 2020 Anglican Church of Canada, Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ministry By Don Beyers Although it is too early for us to say how the COVID-19 virus will transform our church, we can be sure the implications of the pandemic will reshape ministry for many years to come. Yet I wonder... Read More...
Bodies in Worship David Ney November 15, 2019 Anglican Church of Canada, Commentary, Contributors, Ecclesiology You can shop from home. You can work from home. And you can even worship from home.
Why Stay in a Declining Mainline Church? Victor Austin October 16, 2019 Commentary, Contributors, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church Why then do I stay in the declining, once-mainline, Episcopal Church?
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.
A Blind Man’s Pentecost Zac Koons June 10, 2019 Books, Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church How do we see God in a world where we no longer see Jesus?
The Purpose of Lambeth and Staying Away The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner April 2, 2019 Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church The potential train wreck of the Communion at the Lambeth Conference is driven by an unwillingness to take the purpose of gathering seriously.
Repentance and Blessing: The Political Posture of the Church David Mason Barr October 23, 2018 ACNA, Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ethics If we genuinely seek the welfare of our cities, the work will only rightly begin as we repent and seek God’s refashioning of our lives — and that of our neighbors.
