The Word is a Wedding
By Christopher Wells
The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the firmament shows his handiwork.
— Psalm 19:1
While preparing me for confirmation, my mentor at Yale Divinity School, who became my godmother... Read More...
Roundtable: Why I Write for Covenant (Wesley Hill)
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... Read More...
Roundtable: Why I Write for Covenant (John Bauerschmidt)
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...
A Short Course in Suffering
By Daniel Martins
Susanne, my late mother-in-law, was a devout believer. Raised in a strict Anabaptist faith community, she left that tradition as a young adult over what she thought was an excessive legali... Read More...
COVID Taught Me How to Get Married
By Ben Christenson
For the wisdom of the world is foolishness in God’s sight.
—1 Corinthians 3:19
I got married last year at 22. In retrospect, I see that my approach to our pre-COVID wedding was something a... Read More...
How We Understand Ourselves
By George Sumner
As a member of the Communion Partners, I recognize and agree with recent essays by my friends Canon Jordan Hylden and Bishop Dan Martins. I mean this essay to be complementary to their reflections. I want to describe how I understand our vo... Read More...
Decline is a Choice
By Jordan Hylden
Like everyone else, I found the 2019 parochial report statistics very sobering reading. As David Goodhew summarized, TEC has lost about 40 percent of its membership since 1980, with 314,000 ... Read More...
Podcast: Caring for Marriage in a Pressure Cooker
Only recently in human history have we expected so much from marriage. The pressure (or temptation?) to rely totally on one's spouse for companionship, emotional support, etc., etc. is not so easily resisted wh... Read More...