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AI — Not Made in the Image & Likeness of God

A unique feature of Anglican life in the United Kingdom is that 26 Church of England diocesan bishops sit in the House of Lords,...

God Is Not on the Ballot

On the morning of November 6, the day after the presidential election, there will be exploded heads littering the American political landscape. (I speak...

The Dream of Isaiah: A Sacramental Vision of Divine Continuity

In my first essay, focusing on supersessionism, I did nothing new. If anything, I was trying to use my Jewish voice to echo the...

An Illiberal Moment

In yet another narrowly contested election year in the United States, the country’s liberal political order has come under increasing attack, both intellectually and...

Haunting the Father: MacDonald’s Diary of an Old Soul

I am a latecomer to George MacDonald’s The Diary of an Old Soul. I knew about the Scotsman MacDonald (1824-1905), of course; had read...

Learning from Our 1919 Pentecostal Moment, Part Two

Bishop Arthur Selden Lloyd developed a plan for administrative and financial restructuring, combined with a church-wide push to inform, raise funds, and nurture spiritual growth.

Learning from Our 1919 Pentecostal Moment, Part One

The ads grabbed my attention first. I was scanning a stack of issues of The Living Church from 1919 for our digital archives project,...

Tending to Flowers

Flower is from the Middle English “flour,” which referred to both the ground grain and the reproductive structure in plants, before splitting off in...

Olympics and Authenticity

Like so many other households, my family spent most of our early August nights watching the Olympics. Ritual pervades every aspect of my life,...

On Spiritual Amphibians

“You’re making that up,” I said. No, my wife responded, “I do know a family who changed churches primarily because of pew cushions.” When...

Religious Tourism in Scotland

We ambled up the cobbled Royal Mile to the drone of bagpipes and the laughter of tourists. A light rain — what the Scots...

Covenant Classics: Ave, Maria

Today is the feast of Saint Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Whether we celebrate this day her assumption into heaven,...

Sanctoral Chaos and the Bollandists

I decided to walk my talk this Christmastide by making it to one church service on each of the happy Twelve Days: mostly the...

Making Music Singable

This essay is adapted from Neal’s book, How to Hit the Ground Running: A Quick-start Guide for Congregations with New Leadership, Revised, scheduled for...

Rosemary — Half My Soul

As we entered the summer, I was a happily married man in my late 70s, looking forward to journeying deeper into old age with...

The Prayer Book, Memorialization, and Communion Across Difference, Part III

EDITORIAL This is the final part of my three-part essay on these matters. Part I discussed the resolutions proposed by the Task Force on Communion...

The Prayer Book, Memorialization, and Communion Across Difference, Part II

EDITORIAL This second part of my three-part essay on these matters begins the conversation about the first step in the process to add gender-neutral marriage...

The Prayer Book, Memorialization, and Communion Across Difference

EDITORIAL  This article is being published in three parts. Part I looks at the resolutions proposed by the Task Force on Communion Across Difference, which...

The Collapse of the Anglican Church of Canada

New numbers for the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) are out, and they show that Canada is the first major province of the Anglican...

Kenya’s Churches and the Youth Uprising

A wind of change is sweeping across Kenya. Public protests led by youth started on June 25 and continue countrywide. The anti-taxi protests culminated in...

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