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Prayer in Time of Plague

The degree of physical adversity and suffering that was commonplace for our ancestors defies our imagination. We live on the other side of advances...

A Book for Our Time

Michael Mayne’s A Year Lost and Found About six months into the COVID-19 quarantine, a friend from another part of the country called to ask...

What an Early Anglican Can Teach Us about Sickness Today

By Angela Heetderks It’s tempting, in times of scientific uncertainty, to think we have nothing to learn from Christians in the distant past. We would...

God’s visitation

In older Anglican prayerbooks, "The Order for the Visitation of the Sicke" instructed the minister to direct an exhortation to the sick person. He or she is to know "certainly" that "your sickness...is God's visitation."

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