Was the liturgy of the first five centuries in the East and the first eleven centuries in the West defective for not having its moment of reciting the answer? What does it tell us that the liturgical use of the creed began when Monophysites in the East introduced it as a protest against the Council of Chalcedon? Why did the West resist using it liturgically for half a millennium?
by Linda Mackie Griggs Ps. 38 OT 1 Kings 9:24-10:13 Mark 15:1-15 Holy Women, Holy Men Paul Jones “Don’t get arrested.” That’s what my Beloved
by Maria L. Evans Almighty God, by the radiance of your Son’s appearing you have purified a world corrupted by sin: We humbly pray that
by Kathy Staudt In the upstairs choir room at our church, on the bulletin board, there is a set of crayon drawings by Sunday school
by Linda Ryan We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ministry, in ministering; the teacher,
Presume, even if just for a couple of moments, that the prophets of doom are correct in predicting that denominations – including The Episcopal Church (TEC) – are living dinosaurs, anachronisms from a bygone era that will soon die off completely. If accurate, those predictions invite, perhaps demand, a radical rather than incremental re-imagining of TEC because we have little to lose.
Lamenting or applauding the shift from printed to electronic media is unproductive. The change is occurring both rapidly and irreversibly. However, the increasing reliance on electronic versions of the liturgy represents a troubling and growing challenge to TEC’s identity as a church united by common prayer rather than common belief.
Normally, I don’t read the comments with articles, but the comments I found in this one, about redefining charity, as brutal as some of them were, reminded me of a place where we in the church are still horribly snarled up in empire–the charitable contribution as tax deduction.
by Heidi Haverkamp Recently, I presided at a tiny home funeral. Twenty people gathered in the living room of a mother and son, approximately aged
What’s revealed to me about God and God’s kingdom through the Eucharist and parables gets delivered in a way that manages to be both physical–– the detail of the nests in that mustard shrub, for example, or the taste of that yellow, sweet wine in my mouth –– and profoundly mysterious.