4+ hour, 55+ min ago  (294+ words) Editor's Note " This essay is part of a series on Ministry, Disabilities, and Inclusion running April 20-25." A Round Up with links will be available later this spring. My wife and I are the parents of a funny, creative, loving 19-year-old…...

14+ hour, 7+ min ago  (213+ words) The Living Church Please email comments to email protected. Our cover story by Simon Walsh documents the ceremonial beginning of Archbishop Sarah Mullally's ministry, a service at Canterbury Cathedral marked by "colorful simplicity," exemplifying "an ordinary woman called to do…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (553+ words) She did not mistake in taking Him for a gardener; though she might seem to err in some sense, yet in some other she was in the right. For in a sense, and a good sense, Christ may well be…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (684+ words) The Living Church What Went Wrong for American Religion Please email comments to email protected. Christian Smith's provocatively titled Why Religion Went Obsolete should attract a large and wide readership. Smith, the former William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (576+ words) Ash Wednesday services at many Nigerian churches reflected the mood of the nation against the backdrop of relentless attacks by Islamist fighters. Sermons drew parallels between the experiences of ordinary citizens in the last two months'strife and conflicts, displacements by…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (141+ words) He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt." (Luke 18: 9) But then, additionally, contempt carries a simultaneous sense of dislike, of disdain, piling on an affective affront to the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (731+ words) During the weekend before the institution of Dame Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, Prince William announced his "quiet faith" and commitment to the Church of England. But he chose an ambivalent form of communicating it: he delegated the task…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (345+ words) Archbishop Sarah Mullally starts a 140-kilometer (87-mile) pilgrimage March 17 from St. Paul's Cathedral in London to Canterbury, in preparation for her celebratory installation. The archbishop will be joined by her husband, Eamonn, an IT and enterprise architect who also narrates…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (728+ words) This didn't happen because any one of our parishes is particularly large or well-resourced. It happened because we sat down together in late January, opened our calendars, and hammered out a schedule. We already live and worship near each other,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (232+ words) I ended up requiring two books and strongly recommending a third: all three of them are written by women, and two of them written by Episcopal priests. Let me commend each of them here briefly. I highly recommend all three…...