Lent is for Making Christians: The Way of Love Can Show Us How By Eugene R. Schlesinger Lent is a fascinating cultural phenomenon. On the one hand, it’s fairly unpleasant. My daughters, for instance, spend Gesimatide lamenting the fast approach (no pun intended) of Ash ... Read More...
Baptism and the Community of Faith It Takes a Church to Baptize What the Bible Says About Infant Baptism by: Scot McKnight Brazos Press. PP. 140 $16.99 Review by Clint Wilson Scot McKnight is a prominent New Testament scholar and a fixt... Read More...
Drawing Near at a Distance By Mac Stewart I live as a guest in a Catholic religious community. Every Sunday evening, the community adores Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. At the end of this time of adoration, the community members receive the benediction of the sacrament. At the begin... Read More...
The Trials of Returning to Worship By Shirley O’Shea It had been more than five months since I had entered a sanctuary when I returned to church. Before the coronavirus pandemic necessitated the suspension of worship services, I would drive 2... Read More...
JOURNEY INTO HOLINESS: PRAYING WITH THE TRACTARIANS (Part 2) By John Orens The first part of this essay explored the embodied character of grace in Tractarian spirituality. Yet we must recognize that it is precisely in this embodiedness that we are called beyond indiv... Read More...
JOURNEY INTO HOLINESS: PRAYING WITH THE TRACTARIANS (Part 1) By John Orens The liturgical debt Episcopalians owe the Tractarian pioneers of the Anglo-Catholic revival is incalculable. Although they themselves were not much interested in ceremony, almost everything that we take for granted in our public worship — our ... Read More...
The Flesh of the Mystical Body (Part 2) By Paul (H. Matthew Lee) What I have written about the fleshiness of the Mystical Body in the first half of this essay implies that an effacement of Christian orthodoxy might lurk behind the phenomenon of on... Read More...
The Flesh of the Mystical Body (Part 1) By Paul (H. Matthew Lee) A quarter of a year has passed since the pandemic hit in the Western world, and most Anglican churches have been closed to regular congregations through this time. The bishops plan t... Read More...
