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The Living Church
2 years
Much has been written about Queen Elizabeth II since her death, but little about her Anglican faith. Rowan Williams reflects upon her Christian faithfulness.
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5 years
Dr. Elizabeth Anderson on the difficulty of traditional language for the Trinity and the consequences of revision: "At what cost do we tear down all of our false and incomplete images of the invisible God, the God of whom Christ is our only true image?"
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The Living Church
3 years
#CovenantTLC : 5 reasons why a traditional view on Christian sexuality does not excuse a moratorium on "gay Christians":
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5 years
Telling someone, “'Only go into ministry if you can’t see yourself being happy doing anything else' assumes that each individual has a 'right way to be' decided primarily by whether it will lead to happiness as self-fulfillment. This...harms the church."
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The Living Church
1 year
What does family look like in a broken Communion? Two priest-brothers -- TEC and ACNA -- field questions on discernment and prayer books, Christian unity and Canterbury, GAFCON and grace. #podcast #Anglican #EpiscopalChurch @jonbeadle @davidbeadle
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6 years
Wesley Hill writes on why he is "hoping my progressive fellow Episcopalians find a way to make it possible for me to stay in good conscience and, Lord willing, serve this church as a priest."
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The Living Church
6 years
Fr. Mac Stewart: "What we need are priests and teachers of the faith who actually like this religious stuff, and who enjoy nothing more than teaching people how to pray."
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The Living Church
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#CovenantTLC : Is the #EpiscopalChurch still #Anglican ? Maybe not for long.
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6 years
Matthew Shepard will be interred at Washington National Cathedral after a service of thanksgiving and remembrance on Oct. 26.
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The Living Church
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#CovenantTLC : Is Canada the Titanic of the Anglican Communion?
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The Living Church
5 years
Bishop George Sumner reviews The Universal Christ: "Rohr caricatures the creedal tradition as fundamentalist, tightly rationalist, or intent on exclusion."
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The Living Church
6 years
Dr. John Orens writes on the radical Christian socialist, Conrad Noel (1869-1942), his work in Thaxted, and the Catholic Crusade.
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@Livng_Church
The Living Church
6 years
Tim O'Malley: "Preachers now speak about the intentions of the author of the Gospel of Mark rather than Jesus Christ. To the listener of the preached Word, the approach erects an obstacle to an authentic encounter with divine love…"
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The Living Church
1 year
From the Tower of Babel to Beowulf, from Keats and Shelley to singing in tongues, a chat with #Anglican priest and #poet Malcolm Guite @malcolmguite
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5 years
Winfield Bevins: "Let’s be honest. When you think of Victorian England, church planting is hardly the first thing that comes to mind, but a significant and well-documented movement swept across the country, resulting in thousands of new churches."
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The Living Church
6 years
The Rev. Richard Kew has used Cranmer's lectionary for the past year. Here are some things he found.
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@Livng_Church
The Living Church
6 years
The Diocese of San Diego needed only one ballot to elect the Rev. Canon Susan Brown Snook as its fifth bishop.
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@Livng_Church
The Living Church
4 years
"My existence was a logical contradiction." What's wrong with our #theology of lay ministry? #Essay by Elizabeth Anderson @StScholastica #CovenantTLC #blog
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The Living Church
5 years
As the Episcopal Church has transitioned from a parish-oriented model to a niche-demographically-oriented one, it has lost much of its missional edge. The way forward may involve a robust recovery of the parish. — The Rt. Rev. Anthony Clavier
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2 months
Thanks for making this Conversation Across Difference one of our most-listened-to episodes ever. #livinghcurch #podcast #GC81 #EpiscopalChurch
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4 years
#CovennantTLC : "Happy Christmas, War is Over! (If You Want It)": a word of hope from @esaumccaulley for the 12th Day of #Christmas
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5 years
And now for something completely different ...
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8 months
#CovenantTLC : On Day Eight of #Christmas , we remember that Jesus' Jewishness is vital to salvation.
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The Living Church
7 years
. @frjonathan on why the #Church should embrace distinct practices for the sake of #evangelism . #Anglican #Catholic
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The Living Church
10 months
#CovenantTLC : "I was wrong."Victor Lee Austin reflects on Episcopal identity and laments his past emphasis on the #EpiscopalChurch as essentially catholic.
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The Living Church
8 years
“The Episcopal Church Welcomes Refugees,” a free, one-hour educational webinar, will begin at 4 p.m. (EST) Feb. 1.
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The Living Church
6 years
Phoebe Roaf: “We cannot afford the luxury of waiting for people to walk through our doors to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ.”
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The Living Church
6 years
Colin Podmore reports on new ordination arrangement in the Diocese of London, and the dynamics of "mutual flourishing."
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@Livng_Church
The Living Church
5 years
We're thrilled to welcome @roddreher as one of our plenary speakers for "The Future of Christianity in the West: Augustine and Benedict." Get more information at the link below.
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The Living Church
6 years
Wesley Hill: "To arrange Scripture as the BCP does is itself inescapably, and wonderfully, theological. And it is theological in a particularly potent and important way."
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@Livng_Church
The Living Church
7 years
Canon Dr Mark Clavier @BreconCathedral : "Until the baptized imagination has been formed, there’s little point in teaching ordinands skills and techniques — it’s like teaching people how to build and sail ships before they’ve been enchanted by the sea."
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The Living Church
9 years
Twenty bishops of the Episcopal Church dissent from the recent actions of General Convention on marriage. #GC78 http://t.co/1ZX5sotG06
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The Living Church
4 years
Latest #News : @PB_Curry @MSNBC “You don’t read ‘blessed are the peacemakers’ and then have tear gas fired on peaceful protestors.”
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The Living Church
4 years
Preaching creates a frame on which the Holy Spirit can be the artist. Nine not-so-easy steps to such a sermon by Dan Martins @BishSpringfield #CovenantTLC
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The Living Church
4 years
Looking at the spiritual life of #JaneAusten : First and foremost, the woman of wit was a good #Anglican . -David Goodhew @CCGR_Durham @StJohnsDurham #CovenantTLC #blog #goodlit #Englishlit #books #Anglophile
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The Living Church
5 years
Wesley Hill: "If doctrines were from their inception hammered out through close reading of the Bible, might it not be a reasonable assumption that those same doctrines could lead their adherents back into that same close reading?"
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The Living Church
6 years
Fr. Stewart Clem: "We should not neglect Saints. We need flesh-and-blood examples of what it means to be a follower of Jesus in this strange world we live in — to remind us of the demanding nature of Jesus’ teachings."
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The Living Church
5 years
Atoning for what the bishop called a "genuinely evil" role in the slave trade.
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The Living Church
6 years
Fr. Robert Hendrickson: "The persons of the Trinity are not a doctrine circumventing our ability to wonder at the mystery. They are the persons with whom we are ever in conversation, ever in relationship, and ever in love: This is the mystery of faith."
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The Living Church
6 years
Wesley Hill: "We know ourselves baptized, forgiven, transformed; and we know we are not thereby immune to guilt, loss, and decline."
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The Living Church
6 years
Austin Gohn: "Do I need a book like this one in order to worship? Of course, not. … But, does it help us worship?" Absolutely.
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The Living Church
4 years
New on the #Podcast : "I grew up with football determining life. Sometimes it could even trump Southern Baptist life." Listen now to Stanley Hauerwas discuss football, virtue, and ethics with PB Michael Curry. @iamepiscopalian @DukeDivinity @AEHSatDuke
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The Living Church
3 years
#CovenantTLC : Honestly, we need a modern, demythologized faith like we need a hole in the head. #resurrection #miracle #Heisrisen
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The Living Church
6 years
Our days are made holy when we pause periodically to offer God thanks and praise, as well as to present our concerns and petitions.
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The Living Church
2 years
Latest #News : Overnight, @VTS_Seminary becomes central to Oxford Movement research after finding a surprise on eBay.
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The Living Church
5 years
Elisabeth Rain Kincaid will become Nashotah House Theological Seminary’s assistant professor of ethics and moral theology in July.
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The Living Church
5 years
An ambitious project celebrating sacred music.
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The Living Church
6 years
Hannah Bowman on angelic ministries and the struggle against demonic forces warping human society: "Angels are a challenge to our modernism. They are also a challenge to our tendency to give up when progress toward justice seems further away than ever."
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The Living Church
6 years
Fr. Zac Koons: "If we really believe we’re onto something with these scripted prayers and scented candles, why are we keeping it from the youth group?"
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The Living Church
4 months
#CovenantTLC : A reflection on the Prayer of Humble Access, one of the treasures of the Book of Common Prayer.
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The Living Church
6 years
Fr. David Michael Goldberg: "Anti-Semitism is not only a problem of the neo-nationalist right; it is increasingly a problem of the progressive left."
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The Living Church
5 years
Fr. Angus Ritchie reviews a new book on the growth of the churches in London: The Desecularisation of the City.
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The Living Church
6 years
Mediation succeeds between the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh and nine churches of the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh.
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The Living Church
6 years
Covenant's most popular post of 2018 is by Sarah Condon: "Can’t I just leave the gin and tonic-guzzling, Great Gatsby wannabe characters alone in the corner to hiss Cradle Episcopalian at every visitor who crosses the threshold into church? No. I cannot."
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The Living Church
4 years
#CovenantTLC : "I am dazed and depressed by these developments. They bode ill for the future of the Episcopal Church." @BishSpringfield on the resignation of Bp. Love of Albany:
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The Living Church
8 years
Andrew Petiprin on Scruton's philosophy of beauty and conservation, tied to a sacramental goal for nature.
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The Living Church
4 years
Is it possible for U.S. #Anglican churches not to be so "white"? Esau McCaulley @WheatonCollege @The_ACNA and Amber Noel discuss. #CovenantTLC #blog #thelivingchurch #church #history #politics #theology
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The Living Church
4 months
Latest #News : Several dioceses launch effort to reduce assessment money to the Church Center from 15 to 10 percent.
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The Living Church
5 years
The Rev. Grace Burton-Edwards, the Rev. Canon Paula Clark, the Rev. Bonnie A. Perry, and the Rev. Canon Ruth Woodliff-Stanley.
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@Livng_Church
The Living Church
7 years
The Cathedral Church of St. Luke, Orlando, to mark the first anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
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@Livng_Church
The Living Church
7 years
Diocese of Long Island removes two Robert E. Lee markers from the former St. John’s Church in Brooklyn.
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@Livng_Church
The Living Church
10 months
Explore 150+ years of The Living Church magazine for free. Serving the #EpiscopalChurch and #Anglican Communion since 1878.
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@Livng_Church
The Living Church
6 years
Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ (Eerdmans, 2018) is Fleming Rutledge's latest offering, a collection of 46 sermons, paired with other theological writings on the season's themes of evil, judgment, wrath, and hope.
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The Living Church
6 years
Dr David Goodhew and Dr Jeremy Bonner take a look at the growth of ACNA over 10 years: "Understanding ACNA matters … both for Anglicans in the United States and, as similar divisions spread to other areas, for the Anglican Communion more widely."
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The Living Church
6 years
Students of Tudor England and all Anglicans should welcome a new edition of the Bishops' Book, King's Book, and a book of Edmund Bonner.
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The Living Church
4 months
#CovenantTLC : The Episcopal Church's corporate model is hindering its mission. It’s not too late to change.
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The Living Church
6 years
Hannah Bowman on charism, thriving churches, and the difficulty of finding a congregation to join: "The most important thing a church can do in order to thrive is to discern and pursue its charism from the Holy Spirit."
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The Living Church
6 years
The Rev. Sarah Condon: "There is a major tendency in progressive circles to proclaim everything new as normal. And the new things (or people in this case) suffer."
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@Livng_Church
The Living Church
2 months
The #LivingChurch booth is shaping up! If you're at #GC81 , drop by Booth 912 for a chat, a chocolate, new books, and tons of free resources. Woot!
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The Living Church
8 years
Wesley Hill: "Talking about what makes Anglicanism distinctive can be an ecumenical gift rather than an impediment."
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The Living Church
2 months
Latest #News : House of Bishops passes resolutions to acknowledge two teachings on marriage, protect access to ordination, deployment, and canonical residency. #GC81
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The Living Church
7 years
Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry will receive the Archbishop Ramsey Award on Sept. 28.
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The Living Church
4 years
We love visiting @VTS_Seminary !
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Virginia Theological Seminary
4 years
Tonight at the Deanery, students met for a lively conversation with the Rev. Mark E. Michael, editor of @Livng_Church magazine! ⠀ #seminarylife #onholyhill #episcopal #episcopalian
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4 years
Jordan Hylden asks, “After the Bp. Love Trial, Does the Episcopal Church Welcome Us?”
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5 years
“Climate change will create unavoidable homesickness,” Hannah Malcolm said in the first Theology Slam. “This is the world in which the image bearers of God reside. … This is the world where God himself died. … This is the world whose renewal we seek.”
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The Living Church
1 year
Are #evangelicals leading Marian renewal? Can we ever call God "mother"? Dive with us into Amy Peeler's new book! @wesleyhill @albpeeler @WheatonCollege @eerdmansbooks #podcast #livingchurch
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The Rev. Robert Price: "Why have we not expended the same level of energy to reach the same kind of agreements and offer the same kind of ecclesial affirmations with black denominations that are just as similar to the Episcopal Church?"
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The Living Church
6 years
Hannah Matis (VTS): "The greatest challenge facing the Episcopal Church in the near and foreseeable future is the generation gap."
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The Living Church
5 years
Benjamin Guyer: "If you live comfortably in the developed world, you need Lent more than you know. Of all the seasons in the Church’s calendar, none preaches more forcefully against bourgeois complacency."
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The Living Church
4 years
Latest #News : The Rev. Canon Dr. Emily A. Onyango will serve as Kenya's first female bishop @AnglicaninKenya .
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The Living Church
5 years
Studies show that church workers suffer from a greater number of mood disorders than the population at large.
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The Living Church
6 years
Butler and Butler has launched a range of eco-friendly cassocks manufactured with a polyester created from reclaimed bottles.
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@Livng_Church
The Living Church
8 years
Kara Slade on a controversial conference: "The idea of human-robot sex has exploded into public consciousness."
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The Living Church
1 year
#CovenantTLC : For North American Anglicanism to thrive in the future, reconciliation has to be part of the plan. #Anglican #Episcopal #ACNA #theology #church
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5 years
The Rev. Rebecca Osborn is calling on her fellow traditionalists to repent towards the LGBTQ Community, even as they hold to conservative views on sexuality and marriage.
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