No Garden Left Behind
By Tom Smith
I recently read Wesley Hill’s essay on why he contributes to the Covenant blog and remains an Episcopalian. He takes the position that the search for a pure Church is misguided and bound for fru... Read More...
Roundtable: Why I Write for Covenant (Christopher Wells)
By Christopher Wells
Most of the time Covenant is not focused on technical matters of ecclesiology. Thank God, our business is not production of an academic journal. Sacred doctrine speaks of all things. Som... Read More...
Roundtable: Why I Write for Covenant (Jonathan Mitchican)
Periodically, we like to take stock of our work and mission. How can Covenant best serve the Anglican Communion and wider Christian family? And how do we think about the breadth of our writing? For the next few days, we present perspectives that we hope you en... Read More...
Searching for Noah’s Ark: Report #120 from the Field
By Ephraim Radner
Along with the many, mostly amateur, explorers who have been after the remains of Noah’s ark, I too have been searching for it over many years. In my case, it is not archaeology — a fool’s ... Read More...
Sacrament of Maturity
By Sam Keyes
Of all the sacraments, confirmation is the most widely misunderstood. Among Protestants, it often functions, at worst, as a mere coming-of-age ritual. At best, it gets described as something hav... Read More...
Aquinas as Anglican
The following short essay appears in a new translation of a minor work of St. Thomas Aquinas: De Sortibus: A Letter to a Friend about the Casting of Lots, trans. Peter Carey (forthcoming in 2021 from Wipf & Stock). It is republished here with permission.
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
By Neil Dhingra
Famously, Dorothy Day once said, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” The writer Robert Ellsberg, who had recorded that line, noted that Day did not want to be r... Read More...
The Difficult Work of Fellowship
Whatever we may prefer to call it — communion, fellowship, community — it is difficult work. Let’s be honest about that.