From the Chapter
Bringing the Priesthood into Corporate America
By The Rev. Greg McBrayer
The 1990s had been a very turbulent time for our airline and our industry. Many carriers were already struggling before 9/11, but after that day the struggles quickly intensified to an unhealthy, unsafe level, and there was no end in sight. That’s when I suddenly found God using me more and more pastorally in my workplace than in my church. In the very challenging months that followed, the need for a spiritual presence continued to grow, and it fed my desire to serve God in a more profound capacity.
Military Chaplains and the Local Church
By The Rev. Canon Kelly O'Lear, Canon Theologian to the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy
When thinking about Anglican priests serving in the military as chaplains, it’s helpful to take perspective on what a select and small group comprises this cohort. About 0.4% of the U.S. population presently serves in the entire active-duty military. Unless a congregation is near a military base, few of those worshipping in an Anglican parish might actually know someone in uniform.
Catechesis According to the Rule of Benedict
By The Rev. Dr. Greg Peters, Servants of Christ Research Professor of Monastic Studies at Nashotah House
The Rule of Benedict offers a fully-formed theology of spirituality under the theme of humility. For the monk, this lifetime of formation (or catechesis; or, in a more Benedictine fashion, “a lifetime of ascending the ladder of humility”) takes place in the monastic community, within the four walls of the monastery under the authority of an abbot and the rule.
Ministry in Enemy-Occupied Territory
The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
Let me try to put these two sides together: you and God. I will begin with a challenging, though perhaps seemingly grim, observation, which is this: just as the Israelites of the Old Testament suffered, so we have come to our moment of suffering and humiliation.
Churches Transforming Communities
The late theologian and missiologist, Lesslie Newbigin wrote that each Christian has been sent out with the gospel, together in community, to those in the surrounding culture, for the sake of the King and His kingdom: “The Church is sent into the world to continue that which Jesus came to do, in the power of the same Spirit, reconciling people to God.”
The Little Texas Church that Could
How would they pay for their land, their building, and their priest? This was not an easy time for any of the parishioners as they were in the middle of a severe, seven-year drought.
A Leader, Not a Follower: Bishop Kemper and Apostolic Ministry
By Mark Michael
The Sunday after the Ascension, May 24, marks a century and half since the death of the Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, the Episcopal Church’s first missionary bishop. The current crisis won’t allow for a proper celebration, though perhaps a few pilgrims will gather by his tomb at Nashotah that day for reverent, if socially distanced, prayers of thanksgiving.