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...
Trinity, Technocracy, and Grace: Thoughts Occasioned by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer
By Joseph L. Mangina
In Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster movie Oppenheimer, the renowned physicist (played by Cillian Murphy) is twice heard quoting religious texts. One of these is the passage from th... Read More...
The Hour Glass of Time and Emptying Nests
By Steve Rice
My daughter is moving into college this month. Emotionally, I’m okay (so far), but my mind is really confused. I don’t know how so many years have gone by so quickly. I can remember the taste o... Read More...
The Ethical Problem With AI Might Be Different Than You Think
By Chip Russell
In light of the recent position taken by the Roman Catholic Church on the ethics and use of Artificial Intelligence, and the contrasting dearth of conversation in the Episcopal Church about t... Read More...
Beyond Policy Advocacy: Clarifying the Church’s Social Ministry
By Timothy Sedgwick and Philip Turner
For the last 40 years we have been friends in conversation together as professors of Christian ethics at Episcopal seminaries and variously in the life of the Episcopal... Read More...
Margery Kempe’s Strange ‘Forme of Levyngs’ and Lay Vocations
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, but several other essays were of such... Read More...
The Queen is Dead. Long Live the Queen
The Death and Life of Speculative Theology
A Lonergan Idea
By Ryan Hemmer
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2023. Pp. 184. $95
Review by Eugene R. Schlesinger
In our context of urgency and uproar, fe... Read More...