Founded in 2007, Covenant is the online journal of The Living Church Foundation, Inc. Our writers are lay and ordained leaders who serve in parishes and dioceses, in schools, and in para-church ministries across the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Communion, and the wider body of Christ.

Mission

Inspired by the fruitfulness of the ecumenical movement of the 20th century and compelled by love (2 Cor. 5:14–15), we acknowledge the accountability of the Anglican Communion and its churches to the Church Catholic and accept our own incompleteness, praying for ecclesial transformation in the way of the cross (Phil. 2:5–11; Rom. 15:1–7; M. Ramsey, The Gospel and the Catholic Church). We look for instruction in the Scriptures and pray for a share in Christ’s body and blood, grateful for God’s gracious discipline. We would “give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the Church of God” but rather “please everyone in everything,” so that God might be glorified and many may be saved (1 Cor. 10:32–33).

Appropriating this teaching to our own churches and Communion, we support the Anglican Covenant (2009) and the ecclesial vision of The Windsor Report (2004), including its moratoria (§§ 134, 144, 155) as marks of interdependence and mutuality. “God has called us into communion in Jesus Christ” (see 1 Cor. 1:9), who reveals the divine life of God, shaped and displayed “through the very existence and ordering of the Church” (Anglican Covenant § 1). The universal call to a common faith and order inspires our service in the Church, in partnership with seminaries and in friendship with Christians across parties and opinions — Catholic, Protestant, liberal, conservative, evangelical, charismatic. Through conferences, consultations, and other initiatives, Covenant joins the Living Church Foundation in its work of reconciliation and renewal. We eat together as we “wait for one another” in the single body of the One whose blood is our new covenant (1 Cor. 11:33).

History

Founded as a blog in September 2007, Covenant took its place within the ministry of TLC in late 2009 after Dr. Christopher Wells became the Executive Director and Publisher (2009–22). An account by Dr. Wells of the first decade of the blog may be read here.  

Editors of Covenant

The Rev. Zachary Guiliano, Ph.D. (2014–19)
Eugene Schlesinger, Ph.D. (2019–August 2024)

The Rev. Calvin Lane, Ph.D. (August 2024—present) email