Race and Reserve in the High Church Tradition: A Doctoral Thesis Report Brandt Montgomery February 25, 2021 Commentary, Ethics, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Brandt L. Montgomery Like many of my colleagues here on Covenant either have done or are in the process of doing, for the past five years, I have been studying for a doctoral degree. While most of them ei... Read More...
How We Tell the Story (Or, How Christian Nationalism Makes Racism Invisible) Abigail Woolley Cutter November 26, 2020 Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Abigail Woolley Cutter We declared our independence on July 4, 1776. We fought and defeated the British in the Revolutionary War. We expanded across the West. We won World War II. Statements like the... Read More...
How to Be an Angry Christian, According to Thomas Aquinas Stewart Clem October 9, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Stewart Clem People are angry. Given everything that’s happened in 2020, combined with the unlimited opportunities created by the internet for expressing our anger, this might be the angriest year in all of human history. That must be a bad thing, right?... Read More...
A Farewell to Conservatism: James Baldwin and William F. Buckley’s Classic Debate Matt Boulter October 8, 2020 Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Matt Boulter In the spirit of full disclosure, let me put my cards on the table. I grew up in a conservative, white, evangelical home in West Texas in the 1970s and 80s. I went on mission trips with my So... Read More...
Declaration of Dependence Christopher Wells September 24, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Editorial, The Episcopal Church By Christopher Wells All of you brothers over in Africa / Tell all the folks in Egypt, and Israel, too. / Please don’t miss this train at the station. / ‘Cause if you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you. —“Lo... Read More...
Shame and Glory of the Evangelicals Guest Contributor September 8, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Peter C. Schellhase Evangelical Anglicanism has among its heroes those who took a courageous stand against social injustice. These include William Wilberforce, the English MP who devoted much of his political career to ending the slave trade. Wilberforce... Read More...
Abraham and Sarah, Slaveholders The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner July 31, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, Exegesis, The Episcopal Church By Ephraim Radner Abraham and Sarah were slaveholders. Eliezer and Hagar were their slaves. The following is but a brief reflection on how we have interpreted this uncomfortable fact. It offers no grand clai... 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 ... Read More...
