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How To Preach Badly, Part Two

By Steve Schlossberg Part one gave an overview of good preaching, which I usually manage to avoid. Today we begin to set our sights on how to attain the goal of preaching badly. Here I focus on preparation, ... Read More...

How to Preach Badly, Part One: Good Preaching

By Steve Schlossberg If what follows in this three-part series reads like a yet another knockoff of The Screwtape Letters, you’ve discovered my inspiration. Instead of speaking for the devil, however, I am s... Read More...

Death Cafés and the Resurrection of the Body

By Hannah Armidon Among many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world was an increasing sense of mortality. This was very evident in the circles of the internet that I frequent. Some had loved ones die.... Read More...

On the Necessity of Transparency in Title IV Proceedings

By Jeanine Driscoll At the 2018 General Convention, the House of Bishops offered a Listening Liturgy to acknowledge and lament the pain caused by clergy and others who hold religious authority in our church ... Read More...

The Street Theologians

By J. Gary L’Hommedieu Sandy: You hear the word of God more on the street than you do anywhere else. Interviewer: From who? Sandy: Random people. God’s little messengers, that’s what I call them. In the sum... Read More...

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...

The hope and joy of peace

A Stewardship Lesson from an Unlikely Source

The Church’s Deafening Silence Amid Ethnic Cleansing of Armenians

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

A guide to the Covenant

A Stewardship Lesson from an Unlikely Source

The Church’s Deafening Silence Amid Ethnic Cleansing of Armenians

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

Keeping Company with God

Frustration: Good for the Soul?

Are we done with the '79 prayer book?

On the Necessity of Transparency in Title IV Proceedings

From the Archives: The Three Sacred Ministers: An Outmoded Concept? (1965)

Remembering Life’s Journey

From the Archives: Worship in an Era of Permanent Change

From Law to Grace: The Gospel in the Holy Eucharist

Jacob’s Ladder for Christians: A Meditation Upon the Seven Sacraments

Ascension song

A Stewardship Lesson from an Unlikely Source

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

Keeping Company with God

Coleridge: Rowan Williams on the Bible and Poetry; Taylor Swift and Catharism; the Lives of Virgil and Andrei Rublev

Trinity, Technocracy, and Grace: Thoughts Occasioned by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

How To Preach Badly, Part Two

How to Preach Badly, Part One: Good Preaching

Death Cafés and the Resurrection of the Body

On the Necessity of Transparency in Title IV Proceedings

The Street Theologians

Enough is Enough

A House-going Parson Makes a Church-going People

Mystery and Objectivity in Christian Unity