5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (723+ words) The Living Church The By-Products of Faithful Preaching Please email comments to email protected. It is a basic Christian axiom that words do things. God speaks in creation, for example, and in the unfolding of salvation his Word became flesh....

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (353+ words) The Book of Common Prayer is a profound resource and represents a rich religious heritage. Its influence runs throughout English literature and poetry. It has sparked and resolved debates and led to martyrdoms. Most importantly, the prayer book provides Christians…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1076+ words) The 300 parishioners of Christ Church in Corning, New York, an upstate city four hours from Manhattan, were outnumbered 100 to 1. Apis mellifera, or western honeybees, are prized for their ability to pollinate and produce honey. In New York’s Southern Tier region,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (531+ words) The Rev. Matthew Kemp, Ph.D. is vicar of St. John’s Episcopal Church and Redeemer Lutheran Church in Centralia, Illinois. He has taught theology at universities in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Kansas. He and his wife, Alethea, have five children. How God…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (258+ words) I had the privilege of leading contemporary worship at a Bible camp in Canada this summer. It had been almost a quarter century since I had done so and it was a bit of a stretch. We might note, to…...

1+ mon, 9+ hour ago   (494+ words) These debates were not merely abstract doctrinal disputes. They involved real people with real lives and real convictions – here in the US and around the world. Yet I was principally concerned with defending my position and, in all honesty, I…...