Charles III and Kenotic Monarchy

By Benjamin M. Guyer The coronation of Charles III was easily the most subversive event of my lifetime. If it is fair to say that the coronation was a political event, then the terms of its politics are fund... Read More...

For Maundy Thursday

By Garwood Anderson The Maundy Thursday liturgy is probably my favorite of the year. So much happens, from the washing of feet to the Garden of Gethsemane to the celebration in the Upper Room to the Garden of Repose to the Stripping of the Altars. The eveni... Read More...

An Elegant and Multi-Layered History

Privilege and Prophecy  Social Activism in the Post-War Episcopal Church By Robert Tobin Oxford University Press, pp. 392, $35 Review by Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook Privilege and Prophecy focuses on the ... Read More...

Centered in God

By Robert A. Hirschfeld Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold… The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity — “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats As a bishop of ... Read More...

Seek the Peace of the City

By John Bauerschmidt Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 book, After Virtue, was published in the same year I began my seminary training, and I owe it an intellectual debt. McIntyre’s analysis of “The Enlightenment project” (as he dubbed it), with its roots in the 18... Read More...

Sacramental Discipline

By Sam Keyes When the news came that Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone had barred Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Holy Communion, I wondered how quickly Episcopal bishops would scramble over one another to declare t... Read More...