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A Time to Heal: Time as Gift in St. Augustine’s Confessions
By Micah Hogan
Time is thus the vehicle through which the Word is operative, but is also the vehicle of all the resistance, sluggishness, and sin of creatures that keeps them from following the Word. In Book VIII of the Confessions, Augustine speaks of the horror of the approaching “moment of time when I would become different.”
J. I. Packer (1926–2020)
Dr.Packer was a lifelong Anglican churchman who spent the first half of his life in England and the second half in Canada but who was perhaps most popular in the United States. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential theological popularizers of the twentieth century.
Bertram Herlong: A Life-long Love for Education
The Rt. Rev.Bertram Herlong was a leader in planting churches, establishing hospices and senior citizen centers, and collaborating with overseas missions. Bishop Herlong never tired in seeking educational opportunities for those around him, whether for family, parishioners, or the community.
Against Self-Promotion
By Hans Boersma, Ph.D.
Humility is a key virtue, according to Christian tradition. The Rule of Saint Benedict famously mentions the angels descending and ascending on Jacob’s ladder, and explains allegorically, “Doubtless, we should understand this descent and ascent as follows: one descends by pride and ascends by humility.”
The Gospels as Stories
By Jeannine Brown, Ph.D.
As we think about the Gospels as stories, it can be helpful to take a step back and consider how story is a fundamental human category. Human beings experience life as “narratively plotted.” This makes sense of the human predisposition to tell about our lives in story form.
How Can We be Sure About the Validity of Scripture?
With more than 450 English translations of the Bible available, how can we know if we’ve got the “right” one--the most accurate, the closest to the original, the most preferred by scholars?
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.
Soup, Service, and God’s Love in Honduras
By Ignacio Gama and Kristen Gunn
In a lock down that has kept Hondurans at home since March, the clergy and pastoral leaders of The Episcopal Church of Honduras are finding new and creative ways to reach people with las buenas noticias, the good news of God’s saving love in Christ Jesus, which necessitates the care of bodies as well as souls.
Obituaries
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The Resistless Energy of Love
By The Very Rev. William O. Daniel, Jr., Ph.D., ’11
At Nashotah House, where I was a seminarian, a prayer is offered every day during Evensong or at Matins on Thursdays (as it has been for decades). It’s a prayer I continue to pray even though my year of Anglican Studies at Nashotah was years ago. I found myself swept up by this prayer each and every day. Certain prayers do this to us.
Walking Without Knowing Where I am Going: A Journey of Discernment
Soon after Monica Burkert-Brist and her husband Steve married in 1979, they arrived in Madison, Wisconsin, for Steve to attend law school, and Monica landed a job as a legislative aide at the state capitol.
Advancing the Common Good: Economics & Theology Together
By Thomas A. Gresik
In a recent episode of The Living Church podcast, “When to Re-open for Business? Ethics and Economy,” Elisabeth Kincaid and Stewart Clem discussed several important issues in the debate regarding when to re-open our economy. The very title of the episode importantly focuses on ethics and the economy, not on ethics or the economy.
Altering Theological Education for the New Normal
By The Very Rev. Kevin E. Martin
People who hear me teach on leadership and congregational development often comment, “Why didn’t I learn this in seminary?” or “Why don’t they teach this in seminary?” You may be astonished to learn that I do not think either of these two topics should be taught in seminary.
A Good Man was There of Religion
Eulogy for The Rt. Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr. on June 29, 2016
Given by The Rt. Rev. and Rt Hon. The Lord George Carey of Clifton, Ph.D., D.D.
103rd Archbishop of Canterbury
In Response to “Virtual Communion” as a Sacramental
By The Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver, Ph.D.
This period of “COVID-tide” has placed enormous challenges on the church and has posed questions to which Christians have provided various responses. I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But I do hope that the Church might set aside at least this one attempt to respond to the desire for the Eucharist.
The Unwavering Life Together
By Jack Franicevich
The thing about books like Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together is that they present such concrete and compelling visions for Christian community that it’s hard to be satisfied with a “takeaway.” We don’t want to take lessons away from Bonhoeffer. We want to experience the common life he insists on. We know that he knows where God is and, as idiosyncratic as his rules appear, we instinctively want to follow his leadership.
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.”
OnScript Podcast with Dr. Jeannine Brown: The Gospels as Stories
OnScript podcast invites you to a live theology event with Dr. Jeannine K. Brown, with co-hosts Matt Lynch and Dru Johnson, at Nashotah House Theological Seminary on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, from 6:30 PM until 9:30 PM. The event is free* but is limited to 30 individuals, and reservations are required.
How do Black Christians Live out Their Faith in America?
The Rev. Esau McCaulley, Ph.D. has served in many professional and cultural contexts throughout his ministerial and academic career. A Nashotah House alumnus, Dr. McCaulley earned his Ph.D. from St. Andrew's under the mentorship of N.T. Wright. Nashotah House is offering a free class, directed by Dr. McCaulley. Click the image above to find out more.