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Sancta Salus

Michael Cover
November 19, 2020
Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church
By Michael B. Cover Twenty years from now, scholars of American civil religion — a term which covers everything from the Deism of the founding fathers to the “blood hymns” of the Civil War to the role of pro... Read More...

“Don’t Cheat on God”: The Seventh Commandment

Brandt Montgomery
September 11, 2020
Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Ten Commandments, The Episcopal Church
By Brandt L. Montgomery In “Faith of My Father,” I recalled how God made possible the reunion between my late father and I in 1997, following a seven-year estrangement. I further recounted Dad’s pastor descr... Read More...

The Second Commandment: Imagination and Contemplation

Mac Stewart
August 26, 2020
Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Ten Commandments, The Episcopal Church
Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Mac Stewart One of my favorite TV shows as a little kid was Reading Rainbow. In a book, the theme song said, you can go twice as high; you can be a king and live in castles and battle dragons; you can fly int... Read More...

The Church and human rights: Michael Ignatieff on idolatry

Dane Neufeld
July 5, 2017
Anglican Church of Canada, Commentary
Churches face difficult decisions on matters of human rights because some discussions of the topic, like Ignatieff’s, present an alternative moral worldview with which Christians have overlapping concerns.

Hate your own political party

Benjamin Guyer
October 13, 2016
Commentary, The Episcopal Church
Jesus’ words might mean, “Whoever does not hate his own political party cannot be my disciple.”

Is idolatry impossible?

Andrew Petiprin
October 5, 2015
Commentary
Perhaps it is time for us Christians to stop imagining that anyone really desires anything more than God.

Why we do this

The Rt. Rev. Tony Clavier
July 22, 2015
Commentary
Receiving the presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist is treated like a weekly Pill by some of us.

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