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...
Déjà Vu All Over Again An address delivered to the Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas By George Sumner A month and a half ago, on a Zoom meeting of the House of Bishops, the demographic news about our churc... Read More...
The Malpais Legate: On Christian Representation By Samuel Cripps Two Mormon missionaries were sent out into remote deserts to spread their gospel to the far-flung tribes of the region. Sometime during their missionary journey the goals changed, the missio... Read More...
Working on Anglican-Orthodox Unity in the Shadow of War By Christopher Beeley We thought it would be an auspicious time to visit the Holy Land. On October 3rd, my wife, Shannon, and I traveled to Jerusalem for the 50th anniversary meeting of the International Com... Read More...
The Communion of Saints As we have approached Allhallowtide this year, I've been rather mindful of mortality: my own, my loved ones', and others around me. There are a number of factors: the outbreak of a new and terrible war; observi... 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...
Power and Solidarity in the Face of Disaster Remarks delivered at a vigil organized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh on October 19. By Natalie Hall Thank you for the gift to be with you, pray with you, hope with you, and for your trus... Read More...
Don’t Follow the Science By Will Brown Reflecting on the surreal experience of the pandemic from the vantage of a little temporal distance, as one does, what sticks in my craw most of all is perhaps the rhetoric about science. “Follo... Read More...