4+ hour, 56+ min ago  (684+ words) The Living Church What Went Wrong for American Religion Please email comments to email protected. Christian Smith's provocatively titled Why Religion Went Obsolete should attract a large and wide readership. Smith, the former William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (732+ words) My father did not pray for God to punish the ayatollah but to give him a change of heart to love his people. I wondered where my father learned to pray in such a way, but I knew he was…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (314+ words) The Way of the Desert Elders How the Wisdom of Ancient Christians Sustains Us Today By Lisa Col'n Delay Broadleaf Books, 232 pages, $19. 99 Of all the unanticipated developments of 21st-century Christianity, surely one of the most surprising is the renewed interest…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (425+ words) Giovanni Bellini's'Piet'Restored and Pietro Perugino's'Man of Sorrows The Morgan Library and Museum 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York Through April 19 On view for the first time in the United States, the'Piet'by Giovanni Bellini (1424/26-1516), is on loan from the Museo della…...

21+ hour, 46+ min ago  (412+ words) figuratively, of course. Archbishop Tutu was up against Constance and Her Companions, the Martyrs of Memphis, in the final matchup of Lent Madness 2026. They vied for the Golden Halo. I was the "celebrity blogger" for Contance and Her Companions, meaning…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (365+ words) Editor's Note: This essay concludes our series celebrating the 1, 700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. For most Christians today, however, this vision of God's kingdom come to earth in the end raises a problematic question. If this place John sees…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1306+ words) While this pattern of prayer is not widely familiar to Anglicans and certainly more native to the Roman Catholic ascetical and devotional tradition, I'd like to suggest it resonates deeply with Anglican instincts: lingering with Scripture, contemplating the mysteries of…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (248+ words) A Strange Ending to the "Good News" C. S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy describes the resurrection as "The Grand Miracle," the moment God"s new creation bursts into the old. For Lewis, Christian joy is not mere emotional uplift but a…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (508+ words) The Rev. Canon Wilmot Merchant II was planning to retire from ordained ministry this year. And so during a trip to Liberia, where he was born, raised, and ordained a priest, he did not take seriously the thought of becoming…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (137+ words) Acts 2: 14a, 22-32 Psalm 16 1 Peter 1: 3-9 John 20: 19-31 Jesus has provided us with the way of peace that will calm our fears by giving us a mission. We can look back to the Easter-morning encounter of Mary Magdalene with the risen Christ. In her…...