Richard Hooker and the Historic Episcopacy
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
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
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.
Michael Curry’s Ecumenical Moment
Is this not the acceptable time for TEC to form binding agreements with historically black denominations like the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the AME Zion, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church? If not now, when? If not Michael Curry, who?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Ecumenical Imperative
Bonhoeffer’s theology speaks acutely to today’s moment.
Stealing Sheep?
Is there a way to be open and inviting to those on the edges of their native traditions, while also maintaining a robust ecumenism?
Tradition and the Puzzling Gospel of St. John
Tradition may be self-correcting.
Convention, Pope Francis, and the Death Penalty
Episcopalians and Roman Catholics have moved closer together on opposition to the death penalty.