Essays & Reviews
Why the Papacy Matters
- Friday, July 20, 2012
Review by John C. Bauerschmidt
Eamon Duffy’s new book does a good job of distilling two millennia of history into a short and manageable span.
Realism and Transcendence
- Tuesday, July 17, 2012
By Dennis Raverty
American expatriate Henry Ossawa Tanner was a realist who convincingly painted an angel.
Implicitly Pro-life
- Monday, July 16, 2012
The plot of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 turns upon the decision to accept and preserve in safety an unborn child.
Practicing Nonviolence
- Thursday, July 12, 2012
By Leander S. Harding
To what degree will the new teaching be made a status confessionis, that is, a teaching upon which the Church must unite or divide? This is unclear in light of its presentation as an act of the Holy Spirit, leaving the ominous implication that those who resist are quenching the Spirit.
Bowdlerized Catholicism
- Wednesday, July 11, 2012
By Anthony F.M. Clavier
If “No Covenant,” what? How do Anglicans express a sound doctrine of the Church without competent instruments of unity?
Ordered Administration
- Tuesday, July 3, 2012
By Cheryl White
The diocese has been the organizational framework for the life of the Church throughout the ages.
ACI on Title IV
- Monday, July 2, 2012
The complaints are patently frivolous and should be dismissed at the outset.
Spiritual Geographic
- Friday, June 29, 2012
By Michael B. Cover
We need to ask whether smaller dioceses present us with a problem to be solved or a parabolic challenge to be answered.
12 Theses on Bishops’ Ministry
- Wednesday, June 20, 2012
By Ephraim Radner
The role of bishops is now itself a part of the struggle for the Episcopal Church’s faithful mission.
A Pioneer for Anglican Unity
- Tuesday, June 19, 2012
By Peter M. Doll
If the ardent spirits of youth brought Henry Caswall to America, a more mature Romanticism later channeled them into a hopeful vision of a worldwide communion of Anglican churches.
