To Care and Not To Care
By Ian Olson
Lent is always a summoning out of the fertile Jordan Valley and into the wasteland, a wasteland, paradoxically, pregnant with promise. We are driven out of the lush surplus to the desert so as t... Read More...
In But Not Of the World of Fashion
Fashion Theology
By Robert Covolo
Baylor, pp. 216, $39.99
Review by Travis J. Bott
Robert Covolo’s Fashion Theology begins with two epigraphs. The first comes from the French philosopher Yves Michaud: ... Read More...
Concerning the “Virtuous Pagan”
Every year The Living Church's student essay contest draws several excellent submissions. The first-place essay will be published in the October issue of The Living Church magazine, but several other essays wer... Read More...
The Cross and Faithful Skepticism
By Ian Olson
It is unfortunate that Thomas is commonly remembered as “Doubting Thomas,” as though skepticism were his defining characteristic. But skepticism was not a defect to be overcome for this apostle.... Read More...
The Viaticum of a Victim Mentality
By Micah Hogan
From all disordered and sinful affections; and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil,
Good Lord, deliver us.
— The Great Litany, BCP 1979, pg. 149.
If your interactions ... Read More...
Summer Camp as Catechetical Lectio Divina
By Joseph Roberts
Lectio divina, the ancient practice of reading and meditating on Scripture, has seen a huge resurgence as of late. You can now even download apps that are meant to help you along the path o... Read More...
How a Deconstructed Evangelical Found Reconstruction as an Anglican
By Pieter Valk
Despite differing denominational convictions on more ancient theological questions, Evangelical churches in the rural Tennessee town where I grew up were theologically homogenous on front-of-... Read More...
The Waybread of Our Waiting
By Ian Olson
“I am weary, O God,” the compiler of Israel’s wisdom complains, “I am weary, O God, and worn out” (Prov. 30:1), summoning the cavernous fatigue we all experience, perhaps even now, as speech di... Read More...