Meritocracy and the Failure of the Christian Moral Imagination Elisabeth Kincaid October 29, 2020 Bible, Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Elisabeth Rain Kincaid In his confrontation with King David in 2 Samuel 12, the prophet Nathan tells a heart-rending story of a rich man who, rather than give up one of his own flock to feed a hungry trav... Read More...
William Bartram’s Travels Bishop John Bauerschmidt October 23, 2020 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church By John Bauerschmidt I first came to know of William Bartram in fictional form, as a minor character who appears at the beginning of Kenneth Robert’s novel Lydia Bailey. Bartram has what amounts to a cameo r... 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...
“Past its Teeming Time”: Lessons from Colonial Barbados about Environmental Racism Mark Clavier August 25, 2020 Church in Wales, Commentary, Ethics, Ministry By Mark Clavier When John Atkins, a British royal navy surgeon, visited Barbados in 1722, he was astonished by what he found. He had heard about the wealth and fertility of the island, then a leading produce... 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...
Uncomfortable Genealogy Guest Contributor April 22, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church By Richard Mammana The Yankee is comfortable in his complacency about racial inequality in the United States, imagining himself unsullied by the slaving stains of American history. I was such a one until I began reading the wills of my mother’s New Jersey a... Read More...
Healing the Breach: Thinking Theologically About Reparations Guest Contributor February 12, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church We’ve reached a point in the history of our nation, our Church, and our Communion when we need to balance celebration of gains made in reconciliation and community building with ongoing and disciplined excavations of the “stony road” people of African descent have traversed.
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.
