The Difficult Work of Fellowship Guest Contributor March 20, 2020 Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church Whatever we may prefer to call it — communion, fellowship, community — it is difficult work. Let’s be honest about that.
Intramural Ecumenism Leander Harding March 12, 2020 Ecclesiology, Ministry, The Episcopal Church The ecumenical challenge today does not run between denominations but within denominations.
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
As the waters cover the Sea: Hooker, Baptism, and the Nature of the Church Calvin Lane January 24, 2020 Commentary, Contributors, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church During the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, when many of us turn our attention to the twin subjects of ecumenism and ecclesiology, it is helpful to hear a variety of voices on the nature of the church, especially pertaining to baptism.
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.
Richard Hooker and the Historic Episcopacy Guest Contributor November 4, 2019 Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church Hooker’s argument for keeping the historic episcopacy in his day should influence questions of polity in ecumenical discussions of our own day.
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.
