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Jordan Hylden

The Rev. Dr. Jordan Hylden is associate rector at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Lafayette, Louisiana, where he also serves as a chaplain at Ascension Episcopal School.

To Trust in God Completely

Martin Rinkert was called as a pastor in the small town of Eilenberg, Germany in 1618, just as the Thirty Years’ War was beginning. ...

Choosing Life Together, after Dobbs

By Jordan Hylden  I came that they might have life, and have it more abundantly. — John 10:10 The late Bishop Thomas Shaw, formerly Bishop of...

Crisis and the Common Good

In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World. By Jake Meador. InterVarsity Press, pp. 200. $23. Review by Jordan Hylden In so many ways,...

J.I. Packer and the Heritage of Anglican Theology

The Heritage of Anglican Theology. By J.I. Packer. Crossway. Pp. 372 $39.99. Review by Jordan Hylden When J.I. Packer died last summer, he left behind a mountain...

Learning from England: Lessons in Church Growth

By Jordan Hylden What makes a church grow? If the recent polling by Gallup is any indication, there are many church leaders asking that question these...

After the Bp. Love Trial: Does the Episcopal Church Welcome Us?

By Jordan Hylden As vocations director in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, I talk with a lot of young people discerning a call to ordained...

Decline is a Choice

By Jordan Hylden Like everyone else, I found the 2019 parochial report statistics very sobering reading. As David Goodhew summarized, TEC has lost about 40...

The Work of the Priest: A Conversation

The struggle to properly balance the contemplative and the active virtues is not new to modern American life. St. Gregory the Great discussed the need for both in his classic

The Government on His Shoulders

The possibility of genuine politics begins with the first Christmas, with the Incarnation. It is finally and only here that we see there might actually be a peaceable Prince of all the world.

Free to worship him without fear

We say we are free, but more of us feel alone, afraid, angry, despised, and powerless.