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How to Give Children Joy, Even During a Pandemic
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

How to Give Children Joy, Even During a Pandemic

By The Rev. Esau Mccaulley, Ph.D.


The coronavirus forces parents to weigh their kids’ safety against the need for freedom — a tension Black parents have been contending with for generations. I drove my oldest son, a middle schooler, to his baseball game a few miles down the road. There was a slight breeze, a perfect setting for summer activity.

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No Rails in St. Mary’s Chapel?
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

No Rails in St. Mary’s Chapel?

By The Rev. Dr. Calvin Lane

The first time I visited Nashotah House in 2006, I was struck by the absence of altar rails in the Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin. As a doctoral student at the time, much of my dissertation had to do with the material context of Elizabethan and early Stuart churches.

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What is Anglo-Catholicism? 
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

What is Anglo-Catholicism? 

The following online program is titled Secondhand Religion and is hosted by Dr. Ryan N. Danker. Guests include the Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Liturgics and Pastoral Theology; Director of St. Mary's Chapel at Nashotah House, and the Rev. Canon Dr. Robin Ward, Principal of St. Stephen's House, Oxford.

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How J.I. Packer Shaped My Faith and Work
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

How J.I. Packer Shaped My Faith and Work

“Today, it’s a joy to teach theological ethics at a seminary within Packer’s Anglican tradition. My students are exposed to the same idea that I encountered in Packer’s writings so many years ago: There is a deep connection between theology and an intimate, personal, knowledge of God.” Elisabeth Rain Kincaid, assistant professor of ethics and moral theology, Nashotah House Theological Seminary

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Military Chaplains and the Local Church
Ministry, Spiritual Formation Rebecca Terhune Ministry, Spiritual Formation Rebecca Terhune

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.

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A Time to Heal: Time as Gift in St. Augustine’s Confessions 
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

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.”

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J. I. Packer (1926–2020)
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

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.

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Bertram Herlong: A Life-long Love for Education
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

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.

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Against Self-Promotion
Theology, Featured Rebecca Terhune Theology, Featured Rebecca Terhune

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.”

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The Gospels as Stories
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

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.

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Catechesis According to the Rule of Benedict
Spiritual Formation, Theology Rebecca Terhune Spiritual Formation, Theology Rebecca Terhune

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.

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Soup, Service, and God’s Love in Honduras
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

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.

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Obituaries
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

Obituaries

Nashotah House periodically updates a list of alumni whose deaths recently have been noted to the seminary. To read recent obituaries, please click the image above.

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The Resistless Energy of Love
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

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.

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Advancing the Common Good: Economics & Theology Together
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

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.

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Altering Theological Education for the New Normal
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

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.

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A Good Man was There of Religion
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

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

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In Response to “Virtual Communion” as a Sacramental
Rebecca Terhune Rebecca Terhune

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.

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