mercy

Predestination, if understood rightly, should not elicit fear and dread, but rather comfort in a God who is the author and finisher of our faith.

America’s churches have what it takes to put a dent in the nation’s housing crisis.

One of several sprawling wildfires in greater Los Angeles has destroyed St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and School in Altadena.

The Comfortable Words Through these first few weeks of Lent, we have studied the four Comfortable Words, found in our Book of Common Prayer and...

The Comfortable Words In this installment of our Lenten survey of the Comfortable Words, a key part of our Anglican liturgy, let us examine the...

The Comfortable Words We are continuing a Lenten study of the Comfortable Words, a vital part of our Anglican liturgy. These are four Scripture passages...

By Joseph Mangina "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” So run the familiar words spoken during the imposition of ashes...

By Chip Prehn The more one knows, the more one’s mercy grows. He who knows all things is the most merciful of all. Lately the...

Mercy provides catholic Anglicans a way to challenge our Protestant brethren with a hermeneutic that is grounded throughout the witness of Scripture (including St. Paul, especially if one reads “grace” as an aspect God’s merciful response to the human condition), is firmly rooted in theological reflections on the Trinity (Kasper especially leans on St. Augustine), and dynamically connects the relationship of the believer to God in Christ with the relationship that disciples are called to share with their neighbors and the political arrangements that are most conducive to human flourishing.

The Canadian theologian and humanitarian Jean Vanier, who founded L’Arche in 1964, has entered hospice care.