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On Calling a Priest: Asking the Right Questions

The questions asked of potential candidates for parish leadership ought to focus first on following Jesus and only secondarily on skills.

Hope Amid Decline

Addressing decline soberly means more than finding novel growth strategies or attempting to fix injustices. It means inhabiting the gospel narrative.

A Visit from the Holy Spirit

A seasoned pastor shares a visceral experience of grief for those seemingly cut off from the means of grace and the hope of the Gospel.

All God’s Children

Children in our churches offer a witness for adults: they show us who we are in God’s eyes.

Revisioning the Church in a Post-Progressive Society

The Pew Research report reveals the need for Episcopalians to escape a largely white, progressive, and highly educated enclave and re-center our mission and our self-narrative.

Reforming the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral

The fourth article of the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral speaks about bishops. Maybe it should also say something about parishes, local congregations where people come to faith in Jesus.

Don’t Invite Your Friends to the Eucharist: The Church We Are Becoming

In the Church we are becoming, the Eucharist will no longer be our front door, but rather something that follows connection, evangelization, formation, and initiation.

One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

The church’s unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolic foundation flow from God’s promises, are brought to reality in Christ's redemptive work, and are enlivened by the Holy Spirit.

Missionaries Wanted

The Episcopal Church is unlikely to experience renewal because of immigration or procreation. What we need is a new breed of courageous missionaries willing to be a gospel presence.

An Address to the Clergy of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe

Despite a painful sense of estrangement due to American public policy, the Episcopal churches of Europe resolve a deeper commitment to the ministry of reconciliation.

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