Reporting by Sue Careless and commentary by Jeff Boldt
Recent News
Hope for the Covenant
Friday, May 18, 2012
Reporting by Sue Careless and commentary by Jeff Boldt
Conn. Names Diocesan Poet
Friday, May 18, 2012
“We invited Barbara to tap into our inner poet and claim a creative expression of our faith,” said Bishop Laura J. Ahrens.
Charles Colson’s Humility
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
“I’ve wanted for a very long time to say something to you,” Charles Colson said to Lanny Davis. “I am sorry, may God forgive me.”
St. Matthias Day Statement
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
From the Church of England Evangelical Council: “The Church of England’s teaching about marriage and sexual relationships other than marriage currently faces a number of challenges.”
Two Rulings, Two Comments
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Courts in California, Virginia rule in favor of Episcopal dioceses.
Features
Gerre Hancock’s Improvised Fun
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
“It was like a great trailer truck, a lorry juggernaut, backing into a garage from a New York side street.”
Editorial: Getting to Yes
Saturday, February 25, 2012
The proposed Anglican Communion Covenant has taken a battering lately in a handful of diocesan synods of the Church of England, thanks in part to an influential, if incoherent, campaign by the No Anglican Covenant Coalition.
Walking Together in Haiti
Friday, February 24, 2012
By Mark Harris
Haiti is more than Port-au-Prince, more than the earthquake of 2010, more than “the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere,” more than a place that needs our help.
A Tale of Two Grandmothers
Friday, January 20, 2012
By Boyd Wright
If God granted the prayers of one side and denied the others, did he consider the North right and moral and the South wrong and evil? Abraham Lincoln, for one, refused to believe this.
T. Grayson Dashiell: Secretary and Envoy
Friday, January 13, 2012
By Worth E. Norman, Jr.
Probably no one else in the history of the Diocese of Virginia served the church in as many critical positions as T. Grayson Dashiell did over his career.
Essays & Reviews
The Message of the Mission
Monday, May 14, 2012
By Thomas Ferguson
The missiology of the Episcopal Church’s proposed budget for 2013-15.
Firmly I Believe
Friday, May 11, 2012
A report by Anthony Clavier and “Shining with the Gospel,” a sermon by Ephraim Radner from Nashotah House’s “Justification in Anglican Life & Thought: Retrospect and Prospect.”
General Convention’s Roles
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
By Timothy E. Kimbrough
The Episcopal Church’s custodian, steward, mission source, and town hall.
Orderly Counsel
Friday, May 4, 2012
By Christopher Wells
Essays in Advance of General Convention 2012
Surrender Your Pride
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
By Russell J. Levenson, Jr.
“He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Covenant Blog
Craig Uffman and Christopher Wells founded Covenant (covenant.livingchurch.org) in August 2007 as a weblog community of “evangelical and catholic” Christians.
Sunday's Readings
Easter 7
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 • Ps. 1
John 5:9-13 • John 17:6-19
