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Loving My Enemies—A Lenten Discipline

Jesus’ call to love one's enemies forecloses both soft-pedalling the truth about enmity and rejecting enemies out of hand. This visceral reflection is an invitation to deeper transformation in Christ.

Kenyan Archbishop Bans Speeches by Politicians

The ban moves the Anglican Church of Kenya into a stricter separation of church and state than is common in the United States.

The Church and the Illusion of Political Salvation

An experienced community organizer challenges the trend in the Episcopal Church to immerse ourselves in the mechanisms of political change. By stepping back from the illusion of political salvation, Omar Cisneros writes, we can focus on what we are uniquely equipped by God himself to offer, the Gospel.

Field Notes for Episcopalians on the 80 Percent

Despite many worthy efforts at explication, evangelical remains an uncertain label. Always an admixture of theology, history, and sociology, a turning mobile of persons,...

Activist Aims to Liberate Kenyan Church from Political Corruption

“Politicians living flashy lifestyles and dishing out unexplained millions in fundraisers at churches each Sunday troubled me,” says Anglican layman Mwabili Mwagodi.

End Road Work

They are welcome signs on a highway. After miles of slow traffic, driving on irregular and temporary pavement while the main road is being...

Baptism and Public Life

Michael Hopkins provides an extended practical commentary on the rite of Holy Baptism in the Book of Common Prayer.

God Is Not on the Ballot

On the morning of November 6, the day after the presidential election, there will be exploded heads littering the American political landscape. (I speak...

An Illiberal Moment

In yet another narrowly contested election year in the United States, the country’s liberal political order has come under increasing attack, both intellectually and...

Bread and Circuses

In The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton once argued that “the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it.”...

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