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Saying Goodbye to Nana

I am an Episcopalian, and Episcopalians often give up something for Lent or take something on as a daily discipline. This might include abstaining from...

‘Whole and Entire’: Our Lenten Conversion

Lent is among the least understood, most misappropriated seasons of the liturgical year, which is really saying something when you consider what’s become of...

What Was St. Paul’s Conversion?

On this day, January 25, Anglicans and other Christians across the globe celebrate the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle. What kind of conversion...

Mystery and Objectivity in Christian Unity

Fr. Matthew Olver, in his essay “Unity’s Fire,” gives us a powerful account of why the question of Christian unity stands central to the...

Nourishing Memories, Chapter 4: Conversion at Oxford

By Graham Kings Turning Point In one week my whole life was turned upside down. On Sunday, January 20, 1974, as a first-year law student at Oxford,...

Bright Sadness: Notes on the Theology and Practice of Repentance

By Joseph Mangina When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, “Repent” (Mt 4:17), he willed the entire life of believers to be one of...

Because I Do Not Hope to Turn Again

On Ash Wednesday By Eugene R. Schlesinger With my penchant for the melancholy, I’ve always resonated with what we might consider the “downer” moments of the...

Conversion Matters

The Three Conversions of the Christian Life By Kevin Martin and Robert Michael Lewis Resource Publications. Pp. 74. $10.00 Review by George Sumner Christianity “turned the world upside...

Re-Evaluating David Brooks

It was circa 2002. I was an urban church planter in an evangelical denomination in my early 30s, working in a trendy American city....

Simone Weil and the Mission to Modernity

Simone Weil is a figure who is hard to categorize, a Christian mystic who resisted being baptized, a political philosopher who wrote only one complete book, which bases a theory of political organization on the needs of the human soul.

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