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The Next Church

Guest Contributor
December 12, 2018
Ministry, The Episcopal Church
If religion continues to church-it-up in pretense and inside baseball, we become like Gilbert and Sullivan operettas: great good stuff, beloved by an ever-shrinking, self-congratulating group of lovely people.

A practical question on law/gospel

Sam Keyes
June 7, 2017
Commentary, The Episcopal Church
Grace underlines all of what we do in school, but it is always a grace that assumes action and discipline.

500 years after Luther, the law/gospel insight remains almost true

Garwood Anderson
May 16, 2017
Commentary, The Episcopal Church
Luther's understanding of the gospel has a tremendous liberating appeal, but also grave hermeneutical consequences.

Infinite Beauty

Andrew Petiprin
February 23, 2016
Commentary
Beauty cannot be suppressed, even by the Church, and Infinite Beauty, who is our living God, really will save the world.

Beauty will save the world

Andrew Petiprin
February 1, 2016
Commentary
We’ve forgotten what art is for. We need places to live, work, and worship: They are useful for us when they reflect our value as creatures of Beauty itself.

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