Equating ‘Church’ With ‘Worship’ By Calvin Lane Language matters. It shapes our perceptions and priorities, and (we hope) reflects objective truth. No, I’m not talking about pronouns or identities, but rather something perhaps closer to ho... Read More...
Worship on Behalf of All: Pastoral Wisdom from Martin Thornton By Cole Hartin I wish I had read Martin Thornton’s Pastoral Theology: A Reorientation eight years ago, before I started working in parish ministry. Thornton (1915-86) was a priest of the Oratory of the Good ... Read More...
Abiding in Jesus Bryan Owen In my first post for Covenant back in 2015, I noted how much I hated attending church as a child and how that changed over time due to immersion in the eucharistic liturgy. It’s a fairly common experience that children sometimes don’t see the poi... Read More...
Building for Humans: A Primer on Christian Architecture By Stewart Clem How do we know that God cares about architecture? Perhaps the clearest answer is found in the book of Exodus. In fact, most of the second half of the book consists of the Lord’s instructions ... Read More...
Holy Theatre, Holy Worship By John Stroyan In the earliest days of human expression and communication, religion and art were integrally related, indeed inseparable in the seeking, finding, and expressing of meaning. Every human being,... Read More...
What Roy Gets About Worship By Mark Michael On that sweltering morning last July when we held our first service of pandemic-season public worship at Saint Francis, Potomac, Roy was there. There was no vaccine, and lots we didn’t know yet about the virus. We did know that 95-year-old m... Read More...
“Children, Keep Yourselves from Idols” Idolatry By Stephen E. Fowl Baylor University Press 2019. Pp. 180 $34.95. Review by Anthony Petrotta Professor Fowl's argument is clear and concise: idolatry is alive and well, just as it was in the day... Read More...
Being Distracted by the Right Things By Sam Keyes Three times now in an introductory course on sacraments and liturgy, I’ve asked students to reflect on a playlist of Church music that I assembled for them. To do such a thing at all challenges ... Read More...
