Category: The Magazine

A reflection on Holy Week from a verger at the Washington national Cathedral

“Respect is the key: the Lord’s Name is not used lightly or casually or even in regular prayer. It is a holy Name, kept apart from common or everyday language.”

I lost my mom, my stepmom, and my dream of mothering a child of my own. On Mother’s Day, people say the darndest things to me.

Canon Ellen Clark-King shares impressions from her recent trip to Israel arranged by the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council

Often called “the church of the future,” children offer gifts in the here and now, gifts often unrecognized by adults

We review Alec Ryrie’s expansive history of Protestantism and the world created in its image

A poem for Good Friday

What if we all left Holy Week filled not only with Hot Cross Buns, Lamb with Mint Sauce and hair smelling of smoke but also with tenderness?

Anyone who thinks Christianity is about spirituality is not paying attention.  Perhaps it is, but much more so it is about human bodies and sentient beings with bodies.