Ethics

Title IV Must Be Revised

By Pierre Whalon Years ago, I was discussing retirement with a bishop who had retired after a 25-year episcopate. “I got out just in time,” he said. “In time for what?” I asked. “In time to miss the new Titl... Read More...

An Open Letter to Orphaned Believers

By Layne Matthews Boles  Wearied by seemingly endless discord in the church and numb to the chaos of our political climate, I was beginning to feel like I was crazy. Christian fellowship has never felt harde... Read More...

When Love Comes Knocking

By Jonathan Turtle M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, Knock at the Cabin, is an adaptation of Paul Tremblay’s novel The Cabin at the End of the World. On the surface it is a slow-burn apocalyptic thriller, ev... 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...

An Apocalyptic Moment

By Leander Harding  I have written elsewhere about my experience taking a tour as a chaplain at Ground Zero several weeks after the planes struck the World Trade Center. The pile was still on fire those many... Read More...