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Mindfulness As Heartfulness in Alcuin of York’s Love of Reading

By Phil Harrold Alcuin’s feast day is May 20 in the church calendar. There’s a lot of mindfulness out there these days. The term pops up in the “new stoicism” pitched by motivational speakers to the busin... Read More...

I Want to Be One Too: On All Saints’ Day

By Jean McCurdy Meade For all the Saints who from their labors rest. (Hymnal 287) I sing a song of the saints of God (Hymnal 293) O when the saints go marching in (African-American Spiritual) These two hym... Read More...

The Hidden Life of St. Charles of Jesus

By Mac Stewart At the end of his October 2020 Encyclical on “Fraternity and Social Friendship,” Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis referred to a figure (besides St. Francis) who had inspired the preceding pages by his intense aspiration to become a brother to all... Read More...

Gildas the Wise and the Consequences of Bodily Life

By Calvin Lane Although he’s not on the Book of Common Prayer’s calendar, the enigmatic early medieval saint Gildas the Wise (Gildas Sapiens) has often been commemorated on January 29. The day is also my bir... Read More...

St. John the Evangelist

By John Bauerschmidt I fell into the orbit of St. John the Evangelist quite early, without being aware of it. We share a name, after all; although in my case it was my grandfather’s, with no immediate connec... Read More...

Be Emptied That You Might Be Full: On the Feast of Stephen

By Steve Rice The Golden Legend, Jacobus de Voragine’s medieval commentary on the saints, says the Church has kept the feasts of St. Stephen, St. John, and the Holy Innocents on the days immediately following Christmas so that Our Lord “might have his compa... Read More...

Throwback Thursday — “The Lord and Me”: Ninian and Martin of Tours

By William C. Noble His strong hands gripped the dark wood railing of the boat as the gentle afternoon wind filled the heavy canvas sail above his head. The boat slipped quietly into the strong current of ... Read More...

The Beheading of John the Baptist and the (Post-)Traumatic Church

By Elizabeth Anderson The new trial use commemorations approved by the Episcopal Church’s 2018 General Convention include several feasts that are both ancient and widespread, despite their previous absence f... Read More...

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The Next Two Theologies

Bishops in Council: Cranmer on Episcopal Decision-Making

Dreaming Dreams, Seeing Visions: The Theology of Field of Dreams

A guide to the Covenant

The Next Two Theologies

Bishops in Council: Cranmer on Episcopal Decision-Making

Dreaming Dreams, Seeing Visions: The Theology of Field of Dreams

The Episcopate in Anglican History: Received in Humility Yet Exercised with Responsibility

Dreading Pentecost

Mindfulness As Heartfulness in Alcuin of York’s Love of Reading

Are we done with the '79 prayer book?

Mindfulness As Heartfulness in Alcuin of York’s Love of Reading

God Bless America, God Save the King

Charles III and Kenotic Monarchy

Of Canons and Hymns

Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI

Crowns and Vows

Ascension song

Dreaming Dreams, Seeing Visions: The Theology of Field of Dreams

Charles III and Kenotic Monarchy

Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI

Niggle’s Parish: Concerning Trees in Purgatory

Telling the Christian Story in Public

Is There Any Salvation Inside the Church?

Mindfulness As Heartfulness in Alcuin of York’s Love of Reading

I Want to Be One Too: On All Saints’ Day

The Hidden Life of St. Charles of Jesus

Gildas the Wise and the Consequences of Bodily Life

St. John the Evangelist

Be Emptied That You Might Be Full: On the Feast of Stephen

Throwback Thursday — “The Lord and Me”: Ninian and Martin of Tours

The Beheading of John the Baptist and the (Post-)Traumatic Church

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