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Be Emptied That You Might Be Full: On the Feast of Stephen

By Steve Rice The Golden Legend, Jacobus de Voragine’s medieval commentary on the saints, says the Church has kept the feasts of St. Stephen, St. John, and the Holy Innocents on the days immediately followin... Read More...

The Beheading of John the Baptist and the (Post-)Traumatic Church

By Elizabeth Anderson The new trial use commemorations approved by the Episcopal Church’s 2018 General Convention include several feasts that are both ancient and widespread, despite their previous absence f... Read More...

Militant Saints: Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Jonathan Daniels, and the Marian Call

By Kenly Stewart "We are beginning to see as we never saw before that we are truly in the world and yet ultimately not of it. For through the bramble bush of doubt and fear and supposed success we are groping our way to the realization that above all else, we... Read More...

The Holy Innocents

By Daniel Martins The notion of "innocence" has an interesting range of meaning. At a literal and concrete level, it denotes absence of guilt or culpability in relation to a specific act or series of acts. O... Read More...

The Second Day of Christmas: The Feast of Stephen

By Jean McCurdy Meade Thanks to the charming carol, “Good King Wenceslas,” most Christians know that the day after Christmas is the Feast of Stephen. But why? To begin with, Stephen is the “protomartyr,” th... Read More...

Sympathy for Judas: Martin Scorcese’s Silence

How is one supposed to understand Fr. Rodrigues in Martin Scorsese's film?

The hope and joy of peace

Sacramental Discipline

Thinking Outside the Box: A Pre-Christendom Intervention in the Communion Without Baptism Debate

Unchosen Family and the Crisis in the Southern Baptist Convention

A guide to the Covenant

Sacramental Discipline

Thinking Outside the Box: A Pre-Christendom Intervention in the Communion Without Baptism Debate

Unchosen Family and the Crisis in the Southern Baptist Convention

The Viaticum of a Victim Mentality

An Adventurous Archdeacon

What the Pentecostals Taught Me

Are we done with the '79 prayer book?

Thinking Outside the Box: A Pre-Christendom Intervention in the Communion Without Baptism Debate

The Viaticum of a Victim Mentality

What the Pentecostals Taught Me

Pax Covidica, or Losses and Gains of the Pandemic

Confessions of a Penitential Orderer

Easter and the Asceticism of Festivity

Ascension song

An Adventurous Archdeacon

Alexander Schmemann, Mary and the Anthropological Heresy

The Scouring of the White Horse

Passion and Failure in the Church’s Story

Imposters

Bright Sadness: Notes on the Theology and Practice of Repentance

Be Emptied That You Might Be Full: On the Feast of Stephen

The Beheading of John the Baptist and the (Post-)Traumatic Church

Militant Saints: Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Jonathan Daniels, and the Marian Call

The Holy Innocents

The Second Day of Christmas: The Feast of Stephen

Sympathy for Judas: Martin Scorcese’s Silence

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