5+ day, 20+ 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…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (459+ words) Episode 180 • 10th September 2026 • The Living Church What is theology? And what is the Episcopal Church’s relationship to it? How does the Episcopal Church think and live theologically? Several authors approach these questions in a book released earlier this year by Church…...

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, 19+ 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…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (165+ words) There is a new Orthodox monastery on Iona, an island in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. Iona is best known for it’s early medieval abbey. This new community, however, matters for Orthodoxy, but not just for…...

5+ day, 21+ 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, 5+ 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, 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…...