Category: The Magazine

Poet Ida Beal offers two poems wondering how faith lives in her life

The Episcopal church has long been a conglomeration of different sorts; here a political scientist trains his eye on the church and sees three broad groupings. And though there are differences, there is much they share.

A writer and fellow pilgrim tries to say goodbye to the creator/tranlsator of “The Message” bible

Our own sufferings are likely to be small by comparison with those of Jesus and the holy martyrs.  And yet, there is no particular suffering Jesus has not known.  And no one (no, not one single person) is beyond the reach of his compassion. 

“When I began the book, I wanted to find answers to the question I was regularly being asked, particularly by people over 40: Why are zombies so popular?”

Despite our violence, which cost him his life, Jesus was not afraid to become bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh.  For our sake, he became human and showed us God’s ways.

You see, when Jesus talks about marriage and divorce, he is also addressing the unequal distribution of power, not only between men and women, but between the powerful and the vulnerable.

Peace is more than absence of violence, though it surely includes that.  As Martin Luther King once observed, “Peace is not the absence of tension.  It is the presence of justice.” 

A poem from Paul Garrett

Now what? So what? How did we get here in the first place? How can we fix it?  And what should the Church be saying and doing about it, if anything at all?