The Daily Office, the Liturgy of the Hours, Morning and Evening Prayer—call them what you may, but these liturgies to me are at the heart of the Anglican way. I’ve watched commentators wrangle for months and years now on what a real Anglican is.
Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word, and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man’s heart glad, and
Maybe most long-term relationships develop similar weirdnesses, I don’t know. But I do know that every few years my husband Scott latches onto a phase that he repeats several times a day for no discernable reason. In the late 1980s, when we first moved to Maine, he started
What I have said so far suggests a provisional definition of the primary stage in preaching the resurrection as an invitation to recognize one’s victim
In the common way of looking at things heaven is a place you go after you die (if you’ve been good). And I suppose that
Close your eyes. Just for a minute. What is it like to sit in that darkness? When I do this it’s not exactly total darkness that I experience. Sometimes there are these weird little flashes of light or color. I can usually sense contrast in my environment –where light is coming from, where the shadows are.
I tried to skip Lent this year. It wasn’t entirely intentional. There wasn’t any conscious thought to it. I went to the Ash Wednesday service, got my ashes, and even led the Litany of Penitence from the center aisle of the National Cathedral. Yet my head was never really in it and I let other aspects of my life take over.
See, Christian soul, here is the strength of your salvation, here is the cause of your freedom, here is the price of your redemption. You
I can explain why heaven makes no sense, why the most logical response to the human condition is despair, why the future that lies ahead
Episcopalians are people of a common book. Whether we worship in the Churches of England, South Africa, Sudan or the Episcopal Church – all Anglicans share a common book of prayer, worship and wisdom. It predates the American …