Enough is Enough
By Chip Prehn
I write from Sassafras Farm in Augusta County, Virginia. August has just turned into September. There is — even on these hot days — a hint of autumn in the air. The light is changing a little. ... Read More...
A House-going Parson Makes a Church-going People
By Mark Clavier
"You’re the first vicar ever to visit my home.”
I can’t tell you how many times someone has said something along those lines to me. In some places where I’ve served, this clerical inattent... Read More...
Mystery and Objectivity in Christian Unity
By Charlie Clauss
Fr. Matthew Olver, in his essay “Unity’s Fire,” gives us a powerful account of why the question of Christian unity stands central to the task of discipleship. He recounts how the diversity ... Read More...
From the Archives: The Three Sacred Ministers: An Outmoded Concept? (1965)
By H. Boone Porter Jr.
Edited and introduced by Richard J. Mammana, Jr.
The following essay by Harry Boone Porter Jr. (1923-99) was first published in The Anglican, Lent 1965, pp. 3-6 and distributed sepa... Read More...
Can It Be Forgotten?
By David Barr
In my second year of graduate school, I had the opportunity to take a course called “What Is Scripture?” with the prominent Jewish philosopher and theologian Peter Ochs. Ochs, deeply concerned ... Read More...
Remembering Life’s Journey
By Daniel Martins
I have not seen the movie Barbie, and most likely never will. But I have two daughters who, when they were of an age that girls tend to play with dolls, had multiple iterations of Barbie. M... Read More...
Unity’s Fire
This past summer, I joined my 14-year-old son, Isaac, in a hot, dusty field outside Georgetown, Texas. He was competing at part of the U.S. Junior National Team in the World Space Modeling Championships. I had ... Read More...
From the Archives: Worship in an Era of Permanent Change
By Leonel L. Mitchell
Edited and introduced by Richard Mammana Jr.
In 1964, Leonel Lake Mitchell (1930-2012) became the first person to receive a Th.D. in liturgical studies from an Episcopal seminary whe... Read More...