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Signs, Things, and the Mediation of the Ineffable:

Sacramental Ecclesiology in Book I of Saint Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana Every year The Living Church's student essay contest draws several excellent submissions. The first-place essay will be published ... Read More...

A Geography of Two Cities: Augustine’s Hippo Regius

By Edward L. Smither In St. Augustine’s magisterial work, The City of God, he sought to make sense of the believer’s sojourn in a fallen world by presenting a paradigm of two cities: an “earthly” city made u... Read More...

Prolixity and Precision: Reading David Bentley Hart Fast and Slow

You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature By David Bentley Hart University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. pp. 162. $25. Review by Jonathan R. Heaps Reading David Bentley Hart’s recent book, You Are Gods: O... Read More...

Exorcizing Our Gun Demons: Insights from Shane Claiborne and William Stringfellow

By J. Scott Jackson Let’s chop up a gun,” Shane Claiborne said. "You might want to step back a little.” The Simple Way community founder and activist donned a pair of work goggles and proceeded to slice t... Read More...

Seen and Unseen: Unveiling and Addressing A Hidden Obstacle to Church Renewal

By Mark Edington Whatever accounts for our character and institutions will also account for our values, which themselves belong to, and are effective and intelligible at, only their own specific stage in human... Read More...

Anglican Financial Transparency: A Lambeth Conference Imperative

By Benjamin M. Guyer “Charity rejoices in the truth.” — 1 Corinthians 13:6 An oft-named but otherwise shadowy presence haunts current Anglican difficulties: money. With most of the Communion living in the de... Read More...

The Grammar of Communion

The following essay is excerpted from a chapter in When Churches in Communion Disagree, ed. Robert Heaney, Christopher Wells, and Pierre Whalon (Living Church Books, forthcoming this spring). By Katherine S... Read More...

Reconciliation: an Anglican Franciscan Perspective

By Christopher John, SSF Reconciliation of those at enmity is surely the most important need of the world today. Reconciliation doesn’t mean overcoming conflict. Conflict is a normal part of life — neithe... Read More...

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Signs, Things, and the Mediation of the Ineffable:

A Geography of Two Cities: Augustine’s Hippo Regius

Prolixity and Precision: Reading David Bentley Hart Fast and Slow

Exorcizing Our Gun Demons: Insights from Shane Claiborne and William Stringfellow

Seen and Unseen: Unveiling and Addressing A Hidden Obstacle to Church Renewal

Anglican Financial Transparency: A Lambeth Conference Imperative

The Grammar of Communion

Reconciliation: an Anglican Franciscan Perspective

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