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On the 800th Anniversary of the Stigmata of St. Francis

In September 1224, two years before his death, Francis of Assisi withdrew from the public eye and from most of his brothers for a...

The Appetite for God in the Psalms

The most valuable thing about the Psalms, thought C.S. Lewis, is the way in which they express an utter delight in God. In his...

Loving the Bible, Part 1: Learning to Love Scripture

If I may paraphrase Mark Twain: Suppose you grew up in a mainline Protestant church in the United States near the close of the...

‘Blood of Christ, Inebriate Me’

By Mac Stewart  When I was a kid, I wasn’t so crazy about the date of my birth: April 29. It was toward the end...

Holy Spirit: Remembrancer

Refresh my memory, / With words of Moses and Jesus, / To help me follow your ways / And imagine your future.

A walk up the aisle

On weekdays when I am not traveling, it has been my custom to begin and end my days with prayer in the cathedral — prayer that is anchored in the daily office, supplemented by some personal devotions.

What’s preventing a new Oxford Movement?

Has the Episcopal Church developed a more profound focus on the adoration of God, a renewed commitment to justice work grounded in the Incarnation, or a sense of Anglican identity across the real and painful conflicts that have come to define us?

Why Anglicans should pray the rosary

The prayers of the rosary are designed, not to give us a way of bypassing Jesus, but to take us right to him.

Costly devotion

Those wise men brought such manifestly impractical gifts to the infant Christ: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

An Advent devotion

Revelation is always disorienting. The finite cannot comprehend the infinite.

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