Unity’s Fire
This past summer, I joined my 14-year-old son, Isaac, in a hot, dusty field outside Georgetown, Texas. He was competing at part of the U.S. Junior National Team in the World Space Modeling Championships. I had ... Read More...
Beyond Policy Advocacy: Clarifying the Church’s Social Ministry
By Timothy Sedgwick and Philip Turner
For the last 40 years we have been friends in conversation together as professors of Christian ethics at Episcopal seminaries and variously in the life of the Episcopal... Read More...
The Notes of the Church: A Brief Catechesis
By Lawrence Crumb
"We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.” We say these words every Sunday when we recite the Nicene Creed. I’ve recently explored these “notes of the church” with my parish in our newsletter, and offer it here as an example o... Read More...
World Christianity as Connecting Christianities
By Muthuraj Swamy
The phrase “World Christianity” is relatively a new expression to describe Christianity’s presence and growth, but the idea that Christianity is a world religion has always been present in ... Read More...
Encanto
By Hannah Matis
A year ago — was it only a year ago? — Pixar released Soul, with its gorgeous evocation of an African-American neighborhood in New York rather unexpectedly intersected by souls’ transmigratio... Read More...
How Does Jesus Build His Church?
By Justin S. Holcomb
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
— Matthew 16:18
When reading this passage, many people focus on figuring out who or what the “rock” i... Read More...
Out with the Old, In with the Old
By Christopher Wells
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often,” wrote John Henry Newman, with an inter-ecclesial bus ticket in his back pocket. He had doctrinal development in his si... Read More...
Searching for Noah’s Ark: Report #120 from the Field
By Ephraim Radner
Along with the many, mostly amateur, explorers who have been after the remains of Noah’s ark, I too have been searching for it over many years. In my case, it is not archaeology — a fool’s ... Read More...