Features
Letting suffering in: How a colleague's death changed my teaching
A seminary’s calculated risk: CBTS president Molly T. Marshall
Why leaders are a pain: Truth telling in the parish
Should Episcopalians repent? American liberals in a global communion
Voices
Carol Zaleski
Doctor Johnson’s failures
Every New Year's, every Easter, every anniversary of his wife's death, Samuel Johnson took stock and prayed for the grace to try again.
Philip Jenkins
Florence Li, much beloved
In 1944, an Anglican bishop consecrated a Chinese woman to the priesthood—30 years before women attained that rank in the Episcopal Church.
Books
Emmett Till in Different States: Poems, by Philip C. Kolin
Immanuel is the agenda
What humankind needs is a love that sticks around, a love that stays put, a love that hangs on. That’s what the cross is.
The myth of a religion/science conflict
Are science and religion enemies or friends? Neither, says Peter Harrison—but they're both forms of virtue.
The black social gospel
In American history, some lives have mattered; others have not. That difference fundamentally has been a racial one.
Cultivating character
Cultivating character is the lifelong work of evaluating and choosing between various virtues. It's difficult, and it’s our calling.
Dying faithfully
Whether we're dying or living with grief, there are faithful ways to do so. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre points us in the right direction.