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 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...

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...