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Exploring Christian Joy: Ethical Foundations, Communal Flourishing, and African Perspectives

Editor's Note: This essay won Third Prize in the 2024 TLC Student Essay Contest. Amid the complexities of modern life, many pursue enduring happiness yet...

Sacramental Discipline

By Sam Keyes When the news came that Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone had barred Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Holy Communion, I wondered how quickly Episcopal bishops...

Judging Like a Christian

By Bryan Owen Do not judge, so that you may not be judged — Matthew 7:1 These words of Jesus are sometimes quoted to undermine attempts to...

Mapping the Terrain for Engagement on Human Sexuality

Living in Love and Faith Christian Teaching about Human Identity, Sexuality and Marriage The Church of England Review by Oliver O’Donovan In the mid-twentieth century the Church of...

ETHICS: Christian Marriage’s Freedom in Limitation

We can only really experience true and positive freedom within appropriate boundaries. Imagine trying to play football if there are no sidelines or end zones.

“Hell is Other People,” but Heaven Can’t Be: The Good Place’s Unintentionally Augustinian Outcome

With its final door, The Good Place proves useful for our journey once more: we cannot stop here, we must journey on.

The claims of conscience

The conscience is not sovereign. God, who sits as judge on the last day, is sovereign.

Why we need an Anglican “Dear Prudence”

Advice columnists began to be popular in England right at the time that rigorous religious practices of casuistry were declining. Casuistry provided a common language regarding moral issues that spanned ecclesiastical and even denominational divides.

Defining marriage: thoughts from a panel

Perhaps the best thing someone said to me afterwards was, "I wish we had been doing this kind of thing for the past 30 years. I think it would have really been good for the church."

Bishops: Spare Tsarnaev

“Moral reasoning often requires us to transcend our emotional and visceral responses.”

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