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City of God—St. Augustine’s Political Psychology

D. P. Curtin -
In his City of God, Augustine offers a subtle and unsettling, civil diagnosis: political orders are built not on ideas but on loves.
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A Liturgical Theology of Preaching: Series Roundup

Nathan Jennings -
Preaching connects God's word to God's people gathered. It is a work of pastoral care and a declaration of the Good News.
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A Liturgical Theology of Preaching—Preaching as Pastor

Nathan Jennings -
Sermons are an act of pastoral care, biblical exegesis, and leadership. This essay concludes a series on a liturgical theology of the sermon.
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The Last Word—Tapestries of the Apocalypse

Pierre Whalon -
Fourteenth-century tapestries, abandoned but rediscovered centuries later, tell the story of John’s Revelation.
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Is the Post-COVID Bounce Over? The Episcopal Church’s Numbers

David Goodhew -
The Episcopal Church remains 25 percent smaller than it was pre-COVID. The post-COVID bounce that raised attendance in 2022 and 2023 is over.
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Retirement as Vocation?

Stephen Andrews -
Retirement is a vocation, one we ought to receive graciously as a new stage in personal and spiritual growth.
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Doctrine & Doxology—How We Teach Matters

Christopher Holmes -
How we communicate is as important as what we communicate. In teaching about God we praise God. Our doctrine is bound up in doxology.
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Can We Leave the Door Unlocked?

Peter Purcell -
Leaving a door open, although a simple action, is a complicated proposition. I don’t mean metaphorically, but truly to unlock a door and structure...
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What We Do with Power

Kristen Deede Johnson -
What might Herod, the ruthless king who appears in Matthew 2, teach us about discipleship and our relationship to power as Christians? It may...
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Renewal, A Rule of Life, and a Challenge to Men

James Wall -
Could a renewed interest in a Rule of Life be an avenue to reaching men, a diminishing demographic in many mainline churches?
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The Forgotten Leg: Anglican Constitutionalism and the Church’s Call Today

Mark Clavier -
The so-called Anglican method took shape within a moral and legal imagination formed by restraint, continuity, and ordered disagreement.
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Beating Down Satan

Zen Hess -
The Great Litany has us think about the Devil in relation to Christ’s saving work, namely through the whole course of Christ’s obedience.
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Celebrating Kitsch—God’s Embrace of Our Life & Death

Donald Richmond -
Christ emptied himself, becoming one of us in all our ragged fleshiness. In his cruciform embrace of our ordinary death is our salvation.
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Ash Wednesday: Repentance & Liberation

Stephen Andrews -
Locusts! Joel announces impending doom and our frailty. And yet when we rend our hearts, God rends the heavens.
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On Providence & Practical Deism

Leander Harding -
Even Christians sometimes slip into a kind of practical deism. Do we believe that God is at work and present even in the midst of suffering?
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He Sat Down

Cole Hartin -
Jesus hallows the act of taking a break, going for a rest. There may even be scriptural evidence that he sanctified the afternoon nap
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A Liturgical Theology of Preaching—Preaching the Scriptures

Nathan Jennings -
The Scriptures were canonized, in part, to determine what would be read aloud in the worshipping assembly to gather us as Christ’s body.
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A Liturgical Theology of Preaching—Preaching the Good News

Nathan Jennings -
We preach against any notion that there we can improve ourselves. We preach against “self-help.” We preach the only truth: God help.
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Slower than the Headline: Christian Discernment in an Age of Instant Allegiance

Omar Cisneros -
Christians often fall into instant side-taking, even in complex situations, because we've allowed politics to become our primary catechist.
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Joy Through the Valleys—Learning with Mary in the Joyful Mysteries

Jurinesz Shadrach -
Simply lingering prayerfully with the mysteries of Christ’s life is a gift. Christians are wise not to rush, but trust that God is at work.
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