The Feb. 11 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers.
The cover story combines a photo essay by Richard Hill and a reflection by Matthew Burdette on this year’s celebration of Martin Luther King Day in Dallas.
Burdette writes:
While we waited for our turn to enter the parade procession, we stood in a notably depressed neighborhood and watched various school marching bands and teams of cheerleaders — almost exclusively black people — practicing their performances before marching. They were incredible. And theirs was an unqualified spirit of celebration, despite their depressed surroundings. This spirit of celebration was no less the possession of thousands of people — again, almost exclusively black — who lined the street to cheer and to shout to us, perhaps the only racially mixed and explicitly Christian group in the parade, “God bless you!”
News
- Budget Priority on Evangelism | By Kirk Petersen
Features
- The Truth about Martin Luther King Day
- By Matthew Burdette | Photos by Richard Hill
- Necessary or Expedient? | Leonel Mitchell, Reshaped | By Matthew S.C. Olver
Catholic Voices
- George A. Lindbeck, 1923-2018: A Festchrift of Tributes
By Ephraim Radner, Rowan Williams, George Sumner, Stanley Hauerwas, Cyril O’Regan, R. Guy Erwin, Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Joseph L. Mangina, Bruce D. Marshall, Michael Root, and Caleb Congrove
Books
- On Augustine | Review by John C. Cavadini
- On My Own and Assisted Suicide | Review by Phil Reed
- A Course in Christian Mysticism | Review by Chris Roussell
- Attend | Review by Abigail Woolley
Other Departments
- Sunday’s Readings
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
