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Between Presumption and Despair: Further Thoughts on the Ordeal of Hope

By Elizabeth Anderson I have written previously about the understanding of hope espoused by many of the monastic writers of Christian late antiquity. Rather than a...

The Ordeal of Hope: Practicing a Virtue Under Unpromising Conditions

By Elizabeth Anderson  The early 21st century presents many of us with a crisis of hope much more than a crisis of faith. There are...

Scholastic Ecumenism

In today’s world, all Anglican and Episcopal primary and secondary schools must negotiate the inclines, dips, and turns of multilane academic highways. Families have...

Concerning the “Virtuous Pagan”

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 Living Church magazine,...

Mercy First, Then Forgiveness

By Chip Prehn The more one knows, the more one’s mercy grows. He who knows all things is the most merciful of all. Lately the...

Sloth, Charity, and the Christmas “Pause”

By Thomas Kincaid Did you know that every year — every single one — New Year’s Day is exactly one week after Christmas Day? Of course...

 Audrey Hepburn and Temperance

This is the sixth post in a series in which I explore what classic film actresses in iconic roles can teach us — and, more particularly,...

Myrna Loy and Charity: The Thin Man

This is the fifth post in a series in which I explore what classic film actresses in iconic roles can teach us — and, more particularly,...

Hope as the World Is Ending

By Jonathan Mitchican Life in the time of coronavirus is hard.The battle that the human race now wages against this pandemic is beyond anything known...

Cultivating Hope

By Daniel Martins The coronavirus lockdown has affected different people in many different ways. When I am tempted to feel sorry for myself, I am...

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