The Living Church

By Douglas LeBlanc The Rev. Roger A. Ferlo compares his new calling as the first president of two federated Episcopal seminaries to helping an internet startup firm. Ferlo will become president of Bexley Hall and Seabury-Western seminaries July 1.

By Douglas LeBlanc Even as the proposed Anglican Communion Covenant approached its rejection by a majority of dioceses in the Church of England, three Episcopal Church bishops are sponsoring a resolution that supports a continuing Covenant discussion.

Palm Sunday Is. 50:4-9a • Ps. 31:9-16 • Phil. 2:5-11Mark 14:1-15:47 or Mark 15:1-39 (40-47) The liturgical resources and ap­pointed readings are extraordinarily rich. Here I turn only to St. Mark. This particular day is a sad witness to the weakness of confessed fidelity. “Until we are parted by death,” who really knows? The test […]

The Rt. Rev. Francis Lyons, Bishop of Bolivia for 11 years, has accepted an invitation to become assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh.

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba writes: “None of us, as individuals or churches, can see ourselves as self-determining.”

The proposed Anglican Communion Covenant has failed to achieve support from a majority of dioceses in the Church of England, but the communion’s Secretary General has said the global discussion will continue.

Theology professor Joel Scandrett will be interim director of the Robert E. Webber Center for an Ancient Evangelical Future as it moves to Trinity School for Ministry.

The Fifth Sunday in Lent Jer. 31:31-34 • Ps. 51:1-13 or 119:9-16Heb. 5:5-10 • John 12:20-33 Jaroslav Pelikan’s Jesus Through the Centuries remains an immensely useful compendium of an impossibly broad topic: Jesus is our rabbi, our king, our light, the image, the crucified, the bridegroom, the model, the prince, the teacher, the poet, the […]