The Mission of the Church: Who Decides? By John Hartnett Over the years I have observed many conversations about the Church’s mission. Recently it was common for parishes to write mission statements, most of which seemed fairly innocuous. (We are ... Read More...
Worship Online & the Eucharistic Community – An English Perspective By John Wallace The present restrictions on in-person public worship for the Church of England raises serious questions about the nature of the Church as a eucharistic community. In this essay, I probe the p... Read More...
‘Given to the Glory of God’: Dedicatory Plaques and the Communion of Saints We have all received the faith from those who’ve gone before, and we are all charged with the sacred trust of passing it along, entire and intact, to those who will come after us.
The Trinity, Orthodoxy, and Our Common Story We have the word of Jesus to rely upon: he and the Father are one, that the Holy Spirit will come among us, that we now have the glorious gift of calling God Our Father.
The Shortage of Ministry, the Crisis of Imagination The priest shortage is only part of a larger ministry shortage, and the root is a crisis of imagination.
The Dead, Divided Church of Holy Saturday Our hopes for the Church do not rest on human perfection but on divine grace.
Wrestling with our past: Cranmer, familiar yet strange Central aspects of Cranmer’s theological agenda were pushed aside before 1600; they certainly vanished in that most globally influential rite, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
Fraternal language and the body of Christ Calling someone “brother” or "sister" in the Church shapes how we perceive each other.
