Dust and Ashes
By Joseph Mangina
"Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” So run the familiar words spoken during the imposition of ashes in the liturgy for Ash Wednesday. They echo the LORD’s words to A... Read More...
To Care and Not To Care
By Ian Olson
Lent is always a summoning out of the fertile Jordan Valley and into the wasteland, a wasteland, paradoxically, pregnant with promise. We are driven out of the lush surplus to the desert so as t... Read More...
Living in Love and Faith: Where Do Things Stand? Where Do We Go From Here?
In this essay, the author writes purely in a personal capacity.
By Christopher Cocksworth
The Church of England’s Living in Love and Faith (LLF) process crossed an important threshold at the February sessions of its General Synod. LLF began its life si... Read More...
What Can 1928 Teach Us?
By H. Boone Porter Jr.
Edited and introduced by Richard Mammana Jr.
The following essay by Harry Boone Porter Jr. (1923-99) was first published in The Anglican, April 1999, pp. 11-14, as part of its seri... Read More...
From the Archives: A Fast from Missals? (1957)
Edited and introduced by Richard Mammana
This long editorial about missals comes from the desk of Peter Morton Day (1914-1984), TLC’s editor between 1952 and 1964. Day, a layman, was appointed the first nati... Read More...
Living as Salt & Light
By Bryan Owen
I had the good fortune of growing up next door to my grandmother. Her name was Lily Pearle. Does it get any more Southern than that?
Grandmama’s house was a refuge whenever I needed a getaway. Even when her friends were there, she would wel... Read More...
Doctrine Develops, and So Does Liturgy
By Jonathan Mitchican
One of the biggest intellectual challenges to my journey into full communion with the Catholic Church was the idea that doctrine develops. Anglicanism at its best nurtures a love for th... Read More...
The Failures of Reform: A Response to Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy
By Samuel Keyes
Theologians John Cavadini, Mary Healy, and Thomas Weinandy recently published a series of essays as “A Synoptic Look at the Failures and Successes of Post-Vatican II Liturgical Reforms.” The ... Read More...