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This Month Shall Be for You

Esther 9:20-10:3 By Jon Jordan A little over a month ago I finished reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It is the first in a now four-book series spanning roughly five centuries and centered on the... Read More...

Anglican Imaginaries

By Mark Edington Late last year, on my brief return visit to the United States, an American colleague and I were talking about the past summer’s Lambeth Conference. I remarked that — watching the proceedings... Read More...

Prayer Drives Congregational Growth

By John Deepak Sundara Kevin Martin’s recent article “Who Are We Missing?” highlights a valid sociological and theological commonality among some of the largest congregations in the Episcopal Church: they ar... Read More...

On Loving God

By Kate Marsh Before we got married, I remember asking Graham what he meant when he said that he loved me. Of course, I was partly fishing for compliments, but I also wanted to understand what the word meant... Read More...

A Good Day

Esther 8:15-9:19 By Amber Noel What makes for a good day? A walk in the park with your dog? Stopping by the café for a hot doughnut and a cup o’ joe? A day when all the to-dos are checked off, your bills ar... Read More...

The Real ‘Great Divide’

By Charlie Clauss In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn tells the story of the Soviet gulag. He sprinkles in pieces of autobiography: while an officer in the Soviet army, he was accused, arrested,... Read More...

What Can 1928 Teach Us?

By H. Boone Porter Jr.  Edited and introduced by Richard Mammana Jr. The following essay by Harry Boone Porter Jr. (1923-99) was first published in The Anglican, April 1999, pp. 11-14, as part of its seri... Read More...