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Mark Michael

The Rev. Mark Michael is editor-in-chief of The Living Church. An Episcopal priest, he has reported widely on global Anglicanism, and also writes about church history, liturgy, and pastoral ministry.

Destinies of the World Reversed

From “The Reverence Due to the Blessed Virgin Mary” Parochial and Plain Sermons (1832) In Mary was now to be fulfilled that promise which the...

Mysterious Dispensation

From “Baptismal Homily 4,” 19-20 (ca. 428) It follows that, since there needs to be a representation of the High Priest, certain individuals are appointed...

Show Himself Kind

From Commentary on Zephaniah (1559) the gratuitous love of God, by which he embraces and cherishes his Church, as a husband his wife whom...

Peace Which Has No Evening

From Confessions 13.35-38 (ca. 397) O Lord God, grant us peace, for all that we have is your gift. Grant us the peace of repose,...

Two Comings

From Catechetical Lectures, 15.1,3 (ca. 348) We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but a second as well, much more glorious than the...

Bishop Marc Andrus Restricted amid Title IV Charges

The ministry of the former Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. Marc Hadley Andrus, was suspended on October 9 because of “a credible allegation of an inappropriate relationship with an adult.”

We Are Able

And they said to him, "We are able."  St. Mark 10:39 The tradition at my high school was that each graduation speaker had to discuss...

St. David’s of Denton, Texas, Celebrates Larger Space

The Rev. Paul Nesta, rector: “We aren’t here today because a building was consecrated [in the 1950s]. We’re here because a people were consecrated and given good work to advance.”

Va. Churches Sustain Haitian School

Seven Virginia churches are strengthening their relationships with an Episcopal school in rural Haiti, despite four years of pandemic, gang violence, and political unrest that have prevented in-person travel to the island nation.

Being Welcomed

“Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me”  (Mark...