In this last essay in his four-part series on a proposed amendment to the Episcopal Church's constitutio affecting The Book of Common Prayer Matthew S. C. Olver looks to the future in two movements. First, he considers the rather extensive Rationale that accompanied 2022-A059, which outlines some intentions and hopes for the next General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2023 by the bishops. Finally, he offers some specific proposals for a moderate path forward.
Public Schools Aren’t Godless. Ask the Christians Who Feel Called to Stay.
Amid pandemic shifts and concerns over controversial curricula, more families have opted for private or homeschool. But many believers see their place in the system.
Seven Reasons Why We Need to Move Beyond the Church Size Debate
Thom Rainer points out point out seven reasons why a debate on church size bears no good fruit.
Stop Throwing Pastors Under the Bus
Brett McCracken has noticed an increasingly prevalent genre of online evangelical Christian commentary in which pastors are shamed because they’re insufficiently vocal about this or that outrage or not militant enough in the culture war. Increasingly, it seems, there’s a lot of social media mileage in throwing pastors under the bus.
3 Ways to Turn Against Your Pastor
Most people don’t set out to dislike their pastors. Something just happens.
When Is An Elder Disqualified From Ministry?
If we read the qualifications of an Elder as “one strike and you are out,” then we are grossly underselling the Gospel of Jesus Christ — and we wouldn’t truly understand grace in light of godly living. The qualifications are meant to be taken in light of the Gospel, not to replace the Gospel. Jesus is looking for men who are quick to repent and have their overall character across the course of their lives be above reproach and set apart for His purposes.
How to Plan a Daily Quiet Time with God
One of the reasons we struggle to start and maintain this practice is that we over-complicate it. We make it a ritual, with rules attached about what we can and cannot do in order to call it a real quiet time.
5 Ways the Eemy Lures Us into Sin
Every one of us is responsible for his or her sin, but we still wrestle against an enemy who seeks to devour us (1 Pet 5:8). In fact, we could list multiple ways he tries to trap us in sin. Here, though, are some reminders we likely all need....
At Age 80, ‘The Screwtape Letters’ Is Still Worth Reading
C. S. Lewis worried his book The Screwtape Letters would be quietly banished “toward spare bedrooms, there to live a life of undisturbed tranquility.” But the book sold well, and in the 80 years since it was published, the series of letters from a senior devil Screwtape to his underling Wormwood remains a regular on Christian bestseller lists.
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