We Will Remember Them Guest Contributor February 19, 2021 Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Rosemary Kew In the small English town of Oundle, where my mother spent 35 of her last years, daffodils were planted in 1919 in memory of the men who never came home after the Great War. Those daffodils h... Read More...
The Season of Forgetting Guest Contributor November 5, 2018 Commentary, The Episcopal Church We live in the midst of a season of forgetting, a time when the discipline of memory seems too troublesome, too unfashionable, too anachronistic in a time seduced by the new.
‘Given to the Glory of God’: Dedicatory Plaques and the Communion of Saints Eugene R. Schlesinger July 24, 2018 Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church We have all received the faith from those who’ve gone before, and we are all charged with the sacred trust of passing it along, entire and intact, to those who will come after us.
Remembering, Thinking, Imagining: Augustine, Anselm, and Rowan Bishop Graham Kings June 28, 2018 Church of England, Commentary, Poetry Remembering the past, thinking in the present, and imagining the future all interweave.
Morning Diary of a Cathedral Canon Mark Clavier April 18, 2018 Church in Wales, Commentary Within this heavenly place, experiences both ordinary and momentous found meaning.
Holy Spirit: Remembrancer Bishop Graham Kings October 24, 2017 Poetry Refresh my memory, / With words of Moses and Jesus, / To help me follow your ways / And imagine your future.
Never forget, never again: Keeping Civil War memorials Brandt Montgomery March 15, 2017 Commentary, The Episcopal Church We must acknowledge the good, but also the bad, of our past — memories of deliverance, but also that from which we were delivered.
Secularization and a renewal of ecumenical dialogue Timothy O'Malley November 18, 2016 Commentary Secularization is fundamentally about a break in the chain of memory. Ecumenical dialogue attuned to its problems would focus on a common project to spread the gospel to every corner of the world.
