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St. Augustine

Covenant

On Testimony

Christopher Yoder -
By Christopher Yoder I wish to say a word or two in favor of the practice of giving one’s “testimony.” That is, narrating for others how...
Covenant

Signs, Things, and the Mediation of the Ineffable:

Maxine King -
Sacramental Ecclesiology in Book I of Saint Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana Every year The Living Church's student essay contest draws several excellent submissions. The first-place essay...
Church Life

A Geography of Two Cities: Augustine’s Hippo Regius

Guest Contributor -
By Edward L. Smither In St. Augustine’s magisterial work, The City of God, he sought to make sense of the believer’s sojourn in a fallen...
Covenant

Augustine, Bonaventure, & Climate-pocalypse

Matt Boulter -
Is it just me, or are we currently living through a chapter of human history which is unprecedentedly spooky? Unrelenting forest fires in California...
Books & Culture

The Show Goes On

Guest Contributor -
By Jonathan Jameson I’ve spent a large portion of the last eighteen years of my life traveling from town to town and playing songs to...
Covenant

The Ninth Commandment, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor”

Stewart Clem -
Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. The Bible does not condone lying. Or does it? On the one hand, when lying is considered in the abstract,...
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The Eternal Processions and the Triune Formula

Tyler Been -
Every Sunday, by their recitation of the Nicene Creed, Anglicans confess belief in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In many ways, the creed...
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A Light Infused into the Heart

Mark Michael -
Francis and Augustine would tell us first that less is more, and that God’s transforming oracles lie closer to hand than we might first expect.
Books & Culture

“Hell is Other People,” but Heaven Can’t Be: The Good Place’s Unintentionally Augustinian Outcome

Eugene R. Schlesinger -
With its final door, The Good Place proves useful for our journey once more: we cannot stop here, we must journey on.
Covenant

We Need More Moral Ambiguity

Eugene R. Schlesinger -
In online outrage, often forgotten is the biblical counsel: “Let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness” (James 1:19–20).
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