What Can 1928 Teach Us?
By H. Boone Porter Jr.
Edited and introduced by Richard Mammana Jr.
The following essay by Harry Boone Porter Jr. (1923-99) was first published in The Anglican, April 1999, pp. 11-14, as part of its seri... Read More...
From the Archives: A Fast from Missals? (1957)
Edited and introduced by Richard Mammana
This long editorial about missals comes from the desk of Peter Morton Day (1914-1984), TLC’s editor between 1952 and 1964. Day, a layman, was appointed the first nati... 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 the Loire River on its westward way to the Atlanti... Read More...
Throwback Thursday: Things Episcopalians Say
A few years ago, Garwood Anderson provided this wonderful sendup of quite a few quirks of Episcopal Church culture. They bespeak the affection and propensity for self-criticism that should, I think, characteriz... Read More...
Throwback Thursday: Where are We Looking?
Recent events have (or should have) shaken many of us who call the church home. Ongoing revelations of abuse and its cover up. The discovery of mass graves of indigenous children in Catholic-run residential sch... Read More...
Throwback Thursday: Combating Racism in Britain in 1983
By Graham Kings
In preparing for our retirement move to Cambridge later this summer, I rediscovered a paper I had written 37 years ago.
I prepared it for a workshop which I was leading on "Combating Racism in Britain" for the "Eclectics" conference of ... Read More...
TBT: Missionaries in China
From the Archives
TBT: National ordination exams
“Ordination tests are to discover a minimum of knowledge to be expected, and passage of the tests is not to be considered as evidence of any profound scholarly achievement” —Bernard Iddings Bell, 1936.