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, 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…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (535+ words) During the COVID pandemic many clergy found themselves making impossible decisions, risking alienation at every turn. They emerged exhausted. Some retired. Some accepted that their ministries had reached their natural conclusion. But in light of those points of transition during…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (444+ words) The Living Church Maturing in Christ, According to the Fathers Please email comments to email protected. Rather than presenting theology as abstract speculation, Gavin’s thesis is built around how early Christians understood spiritual life incrementally, as a gradual transformation of…...

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…...