On Being Other-Worldly
By Joey Royal
In 430, as the elderly Augustine lay dying, Vandals were sieging his North African city of Hippo. He spent those final days alone, in prayer, surrounded by the words of penitential psalms writt... Read More...
Confronted by the Word
By Jonathan Turtle
It is undoubtedly the case that exposure to the Bible — hearing it, reading it, praying it, meditating upon it — is central to the Christian life. Anglicans, of all people, heirs to the Th... Read More...
The Advent Gospel of the Chicago Cubs
By Zac Koons
Allow me to refresh your memory: It’s 2016, game seven of the World Series, bottom of the tenth inning. There are two outs, the Chicago Cubs are up by one run, and Michael Martinez of the Cleveland Indians is at the plate. On the second pitch, ... Read More...
Finding Hope in My Father’s World
By Mark Michael
We sang “This is My Father’s World” at least once every year in the church of my childhood, on the Sunday of the church picnic at the town park. This was about the only hymn we knew that ment... Read More...
Welcome to Pre-Advent
By Stewart Clem
No, Target: we do not agree that Christmas begins on November 1. You must be thinking of All Saints’ Day. Christmas begins after first vespers on December 24.
People have been complain... Read More...
The host-life and the virus
Like much of the world right now, the Church faces a kind of humiliation in the face of the current crisis.
“Hell is Other People,” but Heaven Can’t Be: The Good Place’s Unintentionally Augustinian Outcome
With its final door, The Good Place proves useful for our journey once more: we cannot stop here, we must journey on.
Climate change, anxiety, and hope
While I am hardly a climate change “denier,” I do sit uneasily with the evangelical fervor with which many people I know and respect talk of environmental disaster.