Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s tribute to First Lady Barbara Bush, released April 20: Today and tomorrow, as the Bush family and the nation they have served so faithfully give thanks for the life and witness of Mrs. Barbara Bush, we of the Episcopal Church likewise give God thanks for her life and her witness to us. While her husband President Bush, her family, friends and … [Read more...] about ‘We Have Beheld a Great Soul’
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Ecumenism’s Strange Future
By Robert W. Jenson Let me set things up with an anecdote — a disproportionately long one, I confess. I will make a couple of observations directly about it, and then carry on past the anecdote but along its trajectory. Since I had taught at Oxford it was assumed that I was a Lutheran who knew something about Anglicanism, so I was appointed to the opening round of … [Read more...] about Ecumenism’s Strange Future
An Insider-Outsider’s Gifts
Review by Andrew Petiprin In 2012 Samuel Wells left his position as dean of Duke University Chapel and research professor of Christian ethics at Duke Divinity School to return to England, where he is now vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London. After seven years in the American academy and the Episcopal Church, Wells developed a unique insider-outsider perspective from … [Read more...] about An Insider-Outsider’s Gifts
Non-linear Verite
The Tree of Life is a profound and beautiful film that won the Palme d’Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival and ranked among the top films of 2011 by the National Board of Review. It is nominated for three Academy Awards (best picture, best director, and best cinematography). It is also a film very few Episcopalians have seen. This strikes me as odd, particularly in light of … [Read more...] about Non-linear Verite