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 ... 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. —“Love Train,” The O’Jays I want to write here in a p... 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 polit... 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 capitulation to the racist mechanisms of Nazi Germ... Read More...
On Justice Bishop Daniel Martins July 21, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Daniel Martins The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on May 25 triggered an explosive response across the nation (and beyond) that has riveted attention on the issue of racism —... 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...
