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Sunday Liturgy Without A Priest: Part One (Communion by Extension)

By Drew Nathaniel Keane Many parishes in the Episcopal Church lack the full-time services of a presbyter, a situation likely to continue for the foreseeable future. What should these congregations do for Su... 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 getawa... Read More...

“Open Table,” Excommunication, and the Mission of the Church

By Matthew Kemp As we approach the next (belated) General Convention, there is once again a proposal, Resolution C028, to rescind the requirement that one be baptized in order to receive Holy Communion in the Episcopal Church. On the one hand, this would e... Read More...

Abiding in Jesus

Bryan Owen In my first post for Covenant back in 2015, I noted how much I hated attending church as a child and how that changed over time due to immersion in the eucharistic liturgy. It’s a fairly common ex... Read More...

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

By Daniel Martins According to the materials that have been made available to bishops and deputies who will be in Baltimore this summer for the 80th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, there is yet a... Read More...

What Will It Add? Why Require Confirmation for Bearing the Cup

By Calvin Lane What will it add? she asked me. I was enjoying a brunch with a delightful retired couple who had relocated to our area and had joined our parish about a year ago. They hadn’t been Episcopalians before and the only worship they knew with us wa... Read More...

Canonical Obedience

By Steve Rice Some time ago, a bishop told me that when the hurricane is coming, you don’t call a vestry meeting to vote on who will put the tarp on the roof. Point taken. In cases of emergency, decisive lea... Read More...

We Must Restore the Chalice: Here’s How to Do It Health-Consciously

By Hannah Bowman As we approach two years since the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, pressing questions remain for how changes in worship practices have unintentionally shaped our eucharistic theolog... Read More...

The hope and joy of peace

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

Keeping Company with God

A guide to the Covenant

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

Keeping Company with God

Frustration: Good for the Soul?

Coleridge: Rowan Williams on the Bible and Poetry; Taylor Swift and Catharism; the Lives of Virgil and Andrei Rublev

How to Preach Badly, Part Three

Are we done with the '79 prayer book?

On the Necessity of Transparency in Title IV Proceedings

From the Archives: The Three Sacred Ministers: An Outmoded Concept? (1965)

Remembering Life’s Journey

From the Archives: Worship in an Era of Permanent Change

From Law to Grace: The Gospel in the Holy Eucharist

Jacob’s Ladder for Christians: A Meditation Upon the Seven Sacraments

Ascension song

Tobacco and Twitter: What One Can Teach Us About the Other

The First Commandment as an Axiom of Christian Preaching

Keeping Company with God

Coleridge: Rowan Williams on the Bible and Poetry; Taylor Swift and Catharism; the Lives of Virgil and Andrei Rublev

Trinity, Technocracy, and Grace: Thoughts Occasioned by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

The Ethical Problem With AI Might Be Different Than You Think

Sunday Liturgy Without A Priest: Part One (Communion by Extension)

Living as Salt & Light

“Open Table,” Excommunication, and the Mission of the Church

Abiding in Jesus

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

What Will It Add? Why Require Confirmation for Bearing the Cup

Canonical Obedience

We Must Restore the Chalice: Here’s How to Do It Health-Consciously

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