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Teasing Out a Bonhoefferian Imago Dei

Editor's Note: This essay won the First Prize in the 2024 TLC Student Essay Contest. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s communal and relational Christology are the clear throughline...

Catholic Indie Rock: Luminous~Glorious

Peter Johnston RVA is an indie-rock project based in Richmond, Virginia, that began in 2020 with the release of a seven-song EP, Be Not...

Theology as Teaching and Contemplation

When I worked on my doctorate at the University of Virginia around the turn of the century, I was blessed to train under some...

Defending the Church’s Language for the Trinity, with Gregory of Nyssa

There have been recent attempts, in some circles, to shift our language about the Trinity away from the biblical and traditional words Father and...

An Open Letter to Survivors of Abuse

Dear survivors of abuse, What happened to you was not your fault. You are not to blame. You did not deserve it. You did not...

Mission, Vision, and Strategy

If you ask a room full of clergy for their opinion on vision and mission statements, prepare for a few eye-rolls and groans. In...

Biggest Little Church

The documentary Biggest Little Farm (2018) tells the story of the regeneration of Apricot Lane Farms in Moorpark, California. When John and Molly Chester...

Nourishing Memories, Chapter 9: Called to be Missionaries

Editor's Preface - This essay is the continuation of an ongoing memoir series by Bishop Graham Kings Background In 1980, as a curate at St Mark’s...

On the 800th Anniversary of the Stigmata of St. Francis

In September 1224, two years before his death, Francis of Assisi withdrew from the public eye and from most of his brothers for a...

Contradictory Teaching — Here, There, and Everywhere (Part 3)

Editor's Note: Part One may be found here.  Part Two may be found here. Part Three Looking Ahead with Augustine In this third and final part of...

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