Free to worship him without fear
We say we are free, but more of us feel alone, afraid, angry, despised, and powerless.
Minnesota anger and the angry God
Anger can be just, but hatred and indiscriminate revenge never can be.
Rebuilding a culture of teaching and learning
In the early church, instruction of the mind and the conversion of the heart were not alternatives, but two sides of the same coin.
Will our children have faith? John Westerhoff’s question after 40 years
Thousands of seminarians have read John H. Westerhoff III’s Will Our Children Have Faith? and it has guided countless parishes and denominational offices in their Christian education programs.
To Trebizond by camel, with tea
The enchanting beauty and intricate patterns of Anglo-Catholic liturgy provide the lineaments of imagination in The Towers of Trebizond.
John Kasich, Anglican
Here's the kind of fellow that we’ve lost in the Episcopal Church: a politically moderate swing-state governor who reads his Bible cover to cover, thinks deeply about it, and tries to put it into practice.
Churches about nothing
Our Anglican Communion recently decided at its Primates’ Meeting to “walk together." This will be a difficult path: if we are to have any kind of common life worthy of the name, we have to have the “serious conversations.”
Forgetting our memory verses
Among the greatest gifts of my upbringing in a little prairie Lutheran church was all of the Bible memory verses. My wife had a similar upbringing, and my memory for verses is not what hers is, but nevertheless... Read More...