Reflections on Praying from Home Jonathan Turtle August 12, 2020 Anglican Church of Canada, Commentary, Liturgy, Ministry By Jonathan Turtle It’s Sunday morning and I am on holiday. My family (wife plus four children aged 9, 7, 4, and 2) and I have just finished saying Mass in the oratory I have erected in the modestly sized st... Read More...
Pandemic: 14th-Century Style Bishop John Bauerschmidt August 11, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church By John Bauerschmidt As the church continues to respond to the coronavirus and the disruption that has resulted, the historical memory of an earlier pandemic lurks in the back of the mind, ready to be brough... Read More...
Reading Boccaccio’s Decameron in the Time of Corona John Mason Lock July 24, 2020 Books, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By John Mason Lock A friend recently posted on social media that he had gone to the bookstore, and they were out of Boccaccio's The Decameron. This admittedly English-major-type joke is that Boccaccio's classic 14th-century Italian text is set in a pandemic... Read More...
No Singing Charlie Clauss July 17, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Charlie Clauss As many of us emerge from shelter-at-home orders, churches have begun planning for in-person congregational worship. This is welcome news! The gathering of God’s people for worship is a gre... Read More...
Hope as the World Is Ending Jonathan Mitchican July 15, 2020 Commentary, Roman Catholic Church By Jonathan Mitchican Life in the time of coronavirus is hard.The battle that the human race now wages against this pandemic is beyond anything known in our lifetime. Many people have described it as apocaly... Read More...
The Plague and the Pandemic Neil Dhingra July 9, 2020 Books, Commentary, Roman Catholic Church By Neil Dhingra Unsurprisingly, amidst this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Albert Camus’ The Plague has again become popular. According to the writer Samuel Earle, in Japan more copies sold in March than during the previous 31 years, and in France “it has somet... Read More...
“Jesus has gone to work from home” – Don’t You Believe It! Mark Clavier July 7, 2020 Church in Wales, Commentary By Mark Clavier There’s little on social media that really riles me. When I log onto Facebook or Twitter, I go with the expectation that I’ll encounter all sorts of rubbish. Instead of being bothered by anyt... Read More...
Ten Theological Theses on COVID-19 and the Providence of God Cole Hartin July 3, 2020 Anglican Church of Canada, Commentary By Cole Hartin At the risk of adding to the influx of handwringing and punditry on all things coronavirus, I want stake out ten theological theses that might orient the way Christians think through the times... Read More...
