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The ‘E-Word’

A rector tells the story of publicizing an adult forum that she called “The E-word.” She didn’t tell her class members what the E-word was,...

God’s Remedy

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...

‘Whole and Entire’: Our Lenten Conversion

Lent is among the least understood, most misappropriated seasons of the liturgical year, which is really saying something when you consider what’s become of...

The Significance of the Cross in John’s Gospel

Every year The Living Church’s student essay contest draws several excellent submissions. The first-place essay will be published in the October issue of The...

On Being a Theologian of the Cross

The season is changing. These past weeks, in the mornings I have been putting the garden to bed. The horn worms have eaten the...

Love and Fear: For Good Friday

By Neil Dhingra Now imagine a film projected not on a screen but on a rubbish dump. The story of Jesus — which in its...

Powerless Christianity

By Eugene R. Schlesinger  I gave my back to those who struck me and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide...

The Poetry of Reconciliation

By Jonathan Mitchican When it comes to interpreting Scripture, N.T. Wright famously said, “We must stop giving nineteenth-century answers to sixteenth-century questions and try to...

To Set Our Sights on the Cross

By Cole Hartin Lent is good time to think about death. It’s a good time to think about death because it’s the time when we...

Meditation on an Image

crosses on crosses on crosses on crosses on crosses on crosses to preternal forces to say that it mattered and mattered and matters to maker and whittler and gluer and hanger who...

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