The First Commandment
Part of a series on the Ten Commandments.
By Benjamin M. Guyer
I am the Lord your God who brought you out of bondage. You shall have no other gods but me. (BCP p. 350)
Is the first commandment really a com... Read More...
The Ten Commandments: Timeless, Just Not the Way you Think
By Eugene R. Schlesinger
The Ten Commandments, recorded in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy, are the centerpiece of the Mosaic legislation, and have long been a major focus of Christian catechesis (alongs... Read More...
On Watching Our Language
By Sarah Cornwell
In the United States, we are living in a time of anger and fear. You may have felt some measure of this yourself. In general, these are not considered to be positive emotions, but in certai... Read More...
Abraham and Sarah, Slaveholders
By Ephraim Radner
Abraham and Sarah were slaveholders. Eliezer and Hagar were their slaves. The following is but a brief reflection on how we have interpreted this uncomfortable fact. It offers no grand clai... Read More...
Grace and Social Justice
By Molly Jane Layton
“Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church.” So begins Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s compelling book The Cost of Discipleship, written as he grappled with the reality of the German Church’s ... Read More...
On Justice
By Daniel Martins
The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on May 25 triggered an explosive response across the nation (and beyond) that has riveted attention on the issue of racism —... Read More...
Faith Working in Love: On Christian Commitment to Social Justice
By Ian Olson
Indignation has been simmering for generations, building with every act of injustice and compounded by the public’s failure to grasp the scope of the problem. And now it’s boiling over across ou... Read More...
Throwback Thursday: Combating Racism in Britain in 1983
By Graham Kings
In preparing for our retirement move to Cambridge later this summer, I rediscovered a paper I had written 37 years ago.
I prepared it for a workshop which I was leading on "Combating Rac... Read More...