The November 24 Advent issue of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers.
In our cover story, Lauren Anderson-Cripps profiles developments at Watts & Co., the famed London vestments and church textiles workshop, which celebrates its 150th year in 2024. Under the leadership of fifth-generation owner Robert Hoare, the company bounced back from a catastrophic flood to buy out its longtime rival, Wippell’s, and open a new line in high-end women’s fashion.
A story by Greta Gaffin about Episcopal churches hosting polling sites amid a nationwide uptick in election-worker threats leads our news section, which also includes reports on a diocesan merger in Pennsylvania, a new future for General Seminary’s Close, and a safeguarding conference in Zimbabwe.
Jeff MacDonald interviews part-time clergy about their work experience, and finds widespread contentment, while Weston Curnow tells how a focus on preaching God’s grace has built up a Texas congregation. Dennis Raverty dissects the mystically inspired abstract art of Aribert Munzner.
Seasonal features include an exploration of the O Antiphons and their pattern of revealing Christ as the fulfillment of prophecy, as well as book reviews about a heist of St. Nicholas relics and a book of meditations for Advent on George Herbert’s poetry.
All this plus more news, features, book reviews, People & Places, and Sunday’s Readings, from our independent voice serving the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion since 1878. Consider subscribing today.
NEWS
- Episcopalians Help at the Polls Amid Rising Tensions | By Greta Gaffin
FEATURES
- Watts & Co Survives Devastating Flood — And Buys Its Competitor | By Lauren Anderson-Cripps
- Jesus and the Great O Antiphons | By David Cox & Michael McLaughlin
- Most Part-Time Clergy Love Their Life | By Jeff MacDonald
- St. David’s Celebrates a Larger Space | By Mark Michael
- ‘Making St. Peter’s a Great Church’ | By Lauren Anderson-Cripps
- Growth Through Grace in Waco, Texas | By Weston Curnow
- Australian Anglicans Take the Church to the People | By Robyn Douglass
COVENANT
- Waiting for the Beloved | By Joseph Mangina
BOOKS & CULTURE
- Munzner’s Playfully ‘Ignorant’ Davening | By Dennis Raverty
- Nicked | Review by Christine Havens
- Wounded I Sing | Review by Barbara White
- The Widening of God’s Mercy | Review by Andrew Goddard
OTHER DEPARTMENTS
- Sunday’s Readings
- People & Places
The Rev. Mark Michael is editor-in-chief of The Living Church. An Episcopal priest, he has reported widely on global Anglicanism, and also writes about church history, liturgy, and pastoral ministry.
