Gracious acceptance
Our post-Communion prayer affirms that we aren’t merely tolerated by God. No, we are graciously accepted.
Incompatible ecumenism? Dialogues on communion, ordination, and primacy
Have Anglicans made incompatible commitments to different Christian churches in ecumenical dialogue?
Consume or be consumed
Either we consume him, recognizing him in the bread and in the gathered community, or he consumes us.
‘That they may be one’: Longing for Christian unity
Our Lord’s prayer on the night before he died remains painfully unfulfilled.
Food of life, food of death
Over at the blog of the Diocese of San Diego, John McAteer has argued that the practice of Communion without baptism is "essential for a proper theology of evangelism."
Liberal order and communion: A response to Timothy Sedgwick
Timothy Sedgwick has opened a window and let a breath of fresh air into the current Communion debates. Rather than dismissing the issues at hand, he insists we take advantage of this moment.
Governing grace and communion
By Timothy Sedgwick
The crisis confronting the the Anglican Communion is not necessarily a tragic moment of division. It is first of all an opportunity to discern what are the ways to respond to Christ's prayer to follow him faithfully that Christians may be one as he and the Father are one, that the world may believe (John 17:21).
What we have taken with our lips…
When people ask why I became Episcopalian, sometimes I respond by saying I was converted by the ablutions.