New Millennium, New Church By Richard Kew It is thirty years since the late Bishop Roger White and I authored New Millennium, New Church, the first of several books in which we challenged the church to think seriously about what the f... Read More...
Why Go Back to 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? 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, how might it change us today? This could be the... Read More...
Bodies in Worship You can shop from home. You can work from home. And you can even worship from home.
Why Stay in a Declining Mainline 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 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.
The Purpose of Lambeth and Staying Away The potential train wreck of the Communion at the Lambeth Conference is driven by an unwillingness to take the purpose of gathering seriously.
