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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...

Chronic Illness and Prayer

Why do we pray for people? What is the purpose of prayer? Praying for people with chronic illness raises uncomfortable questions. We tend to...

My Experience of Post-Christianity

Part of the process toward being ordained in the Episcopal church is clinical pastoral education (CPE). I have long thought it would be profitable...

Pope Francis’ Fiducia Supplicans: Over the Rubicon, past the Tiber, and into a Sea of Change

The recent text from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), issued just a week before Christmas, is likely to change, well,...

A House-going Parson Makes a Church-going People

"You’re the first vicar ever to visit my home.” I can’t tell you how many times someone has said something along those lines to me....

Helping Us Survive, Adapt, Reflect

Trauma and Pastoral Care A Practical Handbook By Carla Grosch-Miller Canterbury Press Norwich, pp. 128, $31.99 Review by Anne O. Weatherholt In this very timely book, Carla Grosch-Miller has...

Which Maintenance, Whose Mission?

By Sam Keyes Several weeks ago, a clergy acquaintance online posted a provocative observation that “maintenance is mission.” This is a priest in charge of...

Why We Need ‘Gay Christians’

The recent decision by Archbishop Foley Beach and the ACNA to officially discourage (or disallow) the phrase “gay Christian” distressed me deeply. I think...

When Miracles Become Idols

This phenomenon of worshiping God’s blessings rather than he who bestows them is nothing new. It is a pattern that’s woven into Scripture from the time of Israel’s sojourn in the wilderness.

The Necessity of Pastoral Visiting

By Cole Hartin Barring the extenuating circumstances of the pandemic, if you are not visiting folks in your congregation, then you are probably not their...

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