5+ day, 23+ 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....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (670+ words) This past summer I had the privilege to spend almost a week of in Dublin. The time was primarily a chance for some continuing education. My plan was to learn as much as I could about the history of the…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (150+ words) ‘Devilish Attitudes’ in S.C. Chapel Controversy Sadly, most Episcopalians and most ACNA types don’t actually know much about how schools work and must work. This is most apparent in the overblown reaction of the ACNA’s acting presiding bishop against…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (722+ words) The Living Church In Praise of Ordinary Time Please email comments to email protected. The liturgical year might be understood as having two phases, one active—sometimes even frenetic—and the other placid, with an occasional punctuation mark that gets…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (306+ words) As Jack Franicevich has demonstrated through a close reading of the canons of both churches, neither bishop violated any canon or rubric of the church to which he or she belongs. That matters, because it means the dispute is not…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (597+ words) More than 30 NATSIAC members gathered on September 3 to address critical issues, including the lack of funding for Aboriginal ministry. Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities are in large rural dioceses, many of which are under severe financial stress. NATSIAC…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (229+ words) Torrance’s picture of anxious rule following corresponds best to the first tier in Irenaeus’s moral theology. In AH 2.6.1, Irenaeus connects the fear of God experienced by all creatures with the awe-filled fear that all citizens of Rome have for their…...

1+ week, 4+ 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+ week, 6+ day ago   (770+ words) Francis Omondi was born into a family with a strong Christian legacy. His grandmother, Dada Leah Omulo—a leader in the East Africa Revival—mentored him. His grandfather, the Rev. Canon Reuben Omulo, was among the first six ordained deacons…...