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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...

Coleridge: Shane McCrae’s and Wes Anderson’s Episcopal Faith; Pynchon as America’s Theologian; and Bach’s Boundless Abundance

Coleridge is a monthly digest of significant developments in theology and the arts. By Ben Lima Poetry Wyatt Mason profiles the acclaimed poet and practicing Episcopalian Shane McCrae on the occasion of hi... Read More...

Of Third Rate Clergymen: Bishop Grafton Speaks

Charles Chapman Grafton: Selected Writings Edited by Clinton Collister Nashotah House Press, pp. 261. $13.99 Review by Joel Gillin In his spiritual memoir, A Journey Godward of a Servant of Jesus Ch... Read More...

Paul Simon, Psalmist?

By Andrew Goddard In his already highly acclaimed new album, Seven Psalms, Paul Simon, born into a New York Jewish family, has brought to the fore his wrestling with questions of faith and doubt. This focus ... Read More...

Artificial Intelligence: Coming Soon to a Church Near You!

By Nicholas Knisely and Kirk Smith A.I., or Artificial Intelligence, is a topic we are hearing much about recently. Television specials tout its promises and its dangers, while social media users debate its ... Read More...

Indiana’s Date with Destiny

By Leander Harding I heartily recommend the latest Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. It is not Shakespeare, but it is exactly what it advertises itself to be, which is a good story ... Read More...

Setting the Believers an Example: Strategy and Tactics in Online Seminary Education

By Hannah W. Matis I appreciated Kirk Smith’s recent piece, published on this blog, on his tenure as the interim dean of CDSP and the several directions in which he senses that seminary education is heading.... Read More...

Return of the Exiles: A How-to Guide for Restoring Faithfulness to Mainline Churches

By Jake Dell Is Generation Z destined to restore the mainline Protestant church to biblical faithfulness? Many of them think so, thanks to one Redeemed Zoomer, a popular YouTube personality with over 115,... Read More...

The hope and joy of peace

Does Everything Happen for a Reason?

A Stewardship Lesson from an Unlikely Source

The Church’s Deafening Silence Amid Ethnic Cleansing of Armenians

A guide to the Covenant

Does Everything Happen for a Reason?

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

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

Does Everything Happen for a Reason?

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

The Queen is Dead. Long Live the Queen

Coleridge: Shane McCrae’s and Wes Anderson’s Episcopal Faith; Pynchon as America’s Theologian; and Bach’s Boundless Abundance

Of Third Rate Clergymen: Bishop Grafton Speaks

Paul Simon, Psalmist?

Artificial Intelligence: Coming Soon to a Church Near You!

Indiana’s Date with Destiny

Setting the Believers an Example: Strategy and Tactics in Online Seminary Education

Return of the Exiles: A How-to Guide for Restoring Faithfulness to Mainline Churches