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Remembering Life’s Journey

I have not seen the movie Barbie, and most likely never will. But I have two daughters who, when they were of an age that...

The Function of the ‘Enjoy Life’ Passages in the Book of Ecclesiastes

Every year The Living Church’s student essay contest draws several excellent submissions. The first-place essay will be published in the October issue of The...

Between Presumption and Despair: Further Thoughts on the Ordeal of Hope

By Elizabeth Anderson I have written previously about the understanding of hope espoused by many of the monastic writers of Christian late antiquity. Rather than a...

To Set Our Sights on the Cross

By Cole Hartin Lent is good time to think about death. It’s a good time to think about death because it’s the time when we...

The Glory of Grandparents: The Age of the Grandparent Has Arrived

By Richard Kew When in 1985 our family moved to Sewanee, Middle Tennessee was very different than it is now. I often jokingly described Nashville...

The Ordeal of Hope: Practicing a Virtue Under Unpromising Conditions

By Elizabeth Anderson  The early 21st century presents many of us with a crisis of hope much more than a crisis of faith. There are...

New Year’s Eve

By Dane Neufeld New Year’s Eve offers a window into the overlapping but often divergent interests of the Church calendar and the secular calendar. While...

Who is ‘Left Behind’? An Advent Meditation

By Wesley Hill One of the Gospel readings appointed for the Advent season used to send chills up my spine when I heard it as...

Ecumenical Anglicanism for the Coming Decade

Editorial Lambeth Conference 2022 should be most memorable for its principled and strategic employing of an ecumenical lexicon for Anglican life together. Archbishop Welby deserves...

Problems with Forgiveness

By Amber Noel The priest says, “Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor,” and maybe (if you’re lucky), there’s a period of...

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