The July 7 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. This edition features an essay by historian Worth Norman, Jr., about the Civil War’s effects on church and state. Also in this issue, Gary G. Yerkey reviews A Powerful Blessing: The Life of Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter, Sr., by the bishop’s son, the Rev. Douglas M. Carpenter.
News
Texas Gains $1 Billion in Sale
Features
The Civil War, Church, and State
By Worth “Woody” Norman, Jr.
Books
A Powerful Blessing by Douglas M. Carpenter
Review by Gary G. Yerkey
Healing Wisdom edited by Kathleen J. Grider
Discovering the Treasure Within by R. Carroll Travis
Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment
by Nancy L. Bieber
Review by Robert D. Hughes III
Receiving David by Faye Knol
Review by Anna Masi
Family Theology by Carol J. Gallagher
Review by Emily Hylden
Sic et non
A Provisional Solution
By Mark McCall
Cultures
The Ethics of Dr. Spock
By Leonard Freeman
Summertime
By Ephraim Radner
Other Departments
Cæli enarrant
Sunday’s Readings
People & Places
Matthew Townsend is the former news editor of The Living Church and former editor of the Anglican Journal. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.