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Kneel Down and Fight

By Clint Wilson Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1990s was, like so many other Southern cities, struggling to find an identity and possessing a hollowed-out urban core before the generation that would usher in re... Read More...

They Ran Out of Wine

A Short Story  By Carter Keithley It rained the whole way for the four-hour drive from Chicago’s O’Hare airport to the wedding venue. I was driving a huge beast of a rental car, an oversized pickup truck, t... Read More...

Why Land Acknowledgments Make Bad Liturgy

By Adam S. Linton As it seems to me, a brief and true definition of virtue is “rightly ordered love.” Saint Augustine, City of God, 15.22 Land acknowledgments at meetings and gatherings have become widesprea... Read More...

Déjà Vu All Over Again

An address delivered to the Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas  By George Sumner A month and a half ago, on a Zoom meeting of the House of Bishops, the demographic news about our churc... Read More...

The Communion of Saints

As we have approached Allhallowtide this year, I've been rather mindful of mortality: my own, my loved ones', and others around me. There are a number of factors: the outbreak of a new and terrible war; observi... Read More...