Is Our Gratitude Alone Enough? Calvin Lane February 1, 2021 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Calvin Lane Everyone here is just more than contented to be living and dying in three quarter time. Jimmy Buffet, “Nautical Wheelers” Through bleary eyes, the addict recognizes the wounds he has inflicte... Read More...
A Pointer to Discipleship Charlie Clauss August 27, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Charlie Clauss The collects are a treasure of Anglican worship. Many people will know the refrain “Read, learn, mark, and inwardly digest” from the collect that always occurs on the second-to-last Sunday ... Read More...
Grace and Social Justice Guest Contributor July 22, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Molly Jane Layton “Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church.” So begins Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s compelling book The Cost of Discipleship, written as he grappled with the reality of the German Church’s capitulation to the racist mechanisms of Nazi Germ... Read More...
Faith Working in Love: On Christian Commitment to Social Justice Guest Contributor July 20, 2020 ACNA, Commentary, Ethics By Ian Olson Indignation has been simmering for generations, building with every act of injustice and compounded by the public’s failure to grasp the scope of the problem. And now it’s boiling over across ou... Read More...
Is there more to the Christian Life than Grace? A Pentecost Reflection Guest Contributor June 1, 2020 Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Russ Levenson, Jr. We all know it – one of the key verses that unlocked the Protestant Reformation: “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of... Read More...
God’s Amazing Grace Fr. Bryan Owen May 18, 2020 Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Bryan Owen Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see. Even in our increasingly secular age, it might be difficult to find people unfamiliar with those words. They open o... Read More...
The Grace of Being Seen Guest Contributor May 15, 2020 Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Paul Kolbet A lot of us are feeling unhappy right now. There is nothing wrong with that. Being happy during a pandemic may not be a thing. If you are unhappy, it is probably because one of your human need... Read More...
Mercy Triumphs Over Grace Rob Price September 19, 2019 Books, Contributors, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church Mercy provides catholic Anglicans a way to challenge our Protestant brethren with a hermeneutic that is grounded throughout the witness of Scripture (including St. Paul, especially if one reads “grace” as an aspect God’s merciful response to the human condition), is firmly rooted in theological reflections on the Trinity (Kasper especially leans on St. Augustine), and dynamically connects the relationship of the believer to God in Christ with the relationship that disciples are called to share with their neighbors and the political arrangements that are most conducive to human flourishing.