“Mom, Mom, Mom.” I hear this mantra often. Balancing family life and a career is challenging, and sometimes I just want silence. Not any silence, but a silence that requires absolutely no follow-up. A few years ago, I signed up for a silent retreat. I approached the retreat like a spiritual vacation: a little rest,…

With the Bible readings assigned for Proper 19A, the theme of our worship this week is repentance and forgiveness in the believing community. The passages hold out both the prospects of abundant reward from God where forgiveness exists and the deadly consequences where it does not.  In the Gospel reading from Matthew 18:21-35, we hear…

Hannah More was one of Britain’s most influential Christian women—a writer, reformer of society, poet and playwright, educator, abolitionist, and lifelong Anglican.

By linking the “unchangeable standard of Christian marriage” to the creation of humankind as male and female, clause 8 opens a doorway to consider a cluster of related issues concerning human nature.

Following Matthew’s sequence of events, our Lord now returns to home base in Capernaum for a brief time before setting out for Judea and Jerusalem. In our worship, we come to the fourth major teaching discourse of Jesus in Matthew (18:1-35), this one directed to his disciples alone and centered on themes of humility toward…

Good news! We’ve completed the latest edition of the Daily Office Booklet. Beginning to pray the Daily Office is a great way to start the New Year. This edition will guide you through Morning and Evening Prayer, using the lectionary readings from September through December 2026. As always, we’ve rendered PDFs for you to print in both booklet and…

Augustine was a man of deep conviction, with remarkable biblical, rhetorical, and logical mastery, while still maintaining the heart of a pastor.

St. Augustine, the priest, bishop, and arguably most influential theologian outside the Bible, is well known for his conversion story. His Confessions remain widely read and quoted today. But we would not know St. Augustine as we do without St. Monica, his mother, and her own life of Christian formation. A Mother Formed in Faith…

At Proper 17A, we come to Jesus’ first prediction in Matthew of his crucifixion and resurrection, followed by the signature messianic teaching, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” In Matthew, Mark and Luke (the Synoptic Gospels) there are as many as three…

Each Sunday, Anglicans gather to hear God’s Word read out loud according to a set schedule of readings called the lectionary. The first reading typically comes from the Old Testament, followed by a Psalm. A second reading, usually drawn from a New Testament epistle, follows the Psalm, and the readings culminate in a selection from…

Despite the obvious connection to The Screwtape Letters, My Dear Hemlock deserves to be evaluated on its own merits as a standalone novel and for anyone who has not read Lewis’s work.

The Reformed Episcopal Church (REC) is a break-off group from the Episcopal Church that formed in 1873 to preserve, as its name suggests, Reformed and evangelical theology from what its leaders saw as overly Anglo-Catholic tendencies in the wider Episcopal and Anglican Church. In the United Kingdom, the REC supported the formation of the Free…

The Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON), which met for the first time in Jerusalem in 2008, has represented Anglican provinces opposing the liberal policies of provinces that have departed from orthodox teaching on sexuality and biblical authority. It approved the creation of the ACNA.

Following the Gospel of Matthew in Year A, this week in our worship we contemplate another recorded incident of Jesus and his disciples while north of the Sea of Galilee; this time in the district of Caesarea Philippi, an important city in the region governed by Philip, the son of Herod, and a center of…

Many outside the Gafcon movement, and some within it, have asked: “Why are you hung up on sex?” My reply has two parts. First, I will exposit this clause literally, focusing on the meaning of marriage as expressed in the Bible and Prayer Book.

In Therapy Nation, Jonathan Alpert argues that therapy without direction, goals, and accountability for results has become far too common.

A new awareness stirred within me of how our own entrances into the world reflect the rebirth Christ has given us.

At this point in our walk with Jesus in the Season After Pentecost Year A, we are approaching the end of his ministry in the north (mainly Galilee) before he journeys south to Jerusalem and the cross. The assigned Gospel reading out of Matthew 15:21-28 is the narrative account of Jesus’ encounter with a Canaanite…