Sympathetic Imagination
The process of entering into another age and another culture is not a strictly scientific one but requires imagination, the ability to call to mind people distant from us in time and place.
Anglicans Online: A Retrospective
The opportunity to offer a personal retrospective on the website is a happy and welcome thing, if here emphatically personal. Anglicans Online’s inner workings were always a group effort of deep magic.
The Parable of the Past
Bit by bit, our links to significant episodes of human existence are dissolving.
Healing the Breach: Thinking Theologically About Reparations
We’ve reached a point in the history of our nation, our Church, and our Communion when we need to balance celebration of gains made in reconciliation and community building with ongoing and disciplined excavations of the “stony road” people of African descent have traversed.
Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ of Faith
The only access we have to Jesus is through the Christ who is the object of our faith — the Christ who lived and died and rose for us, who intercedes for us as our Great High Priest, and who will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. It is alone through Jesus Christ that we have any knowledge of Jesus of Nazareth.
Why Can’t Lambeth Become a Synod?
Why can’t Lambeth become a synod? Whatever our answers to this question, we must recognize that the historical case against synodality for Lambeth rests upon a rather unattractive nationalism, and is simply untenable.
Bishop Straight Tongue
Henry Benjamin Whipple – first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, evangelist and defender of the Minnesota Indians, and the man who bent the ear of America’s greatest president to stop a mass execution.
We Can’t Just Rebuild
It is tragically fitting that this catastrophe should take place in France, once the home of the Holy See and now among the most secular nations in the West.