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Sunday School Gets Pandemic Reboot

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
COVID-19 pandemic conditions have accelerated a process that reformers have longed to see: making Sunday school less academic, more experience-oriented, and more intergenerational.
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Can Parish Thrive
With a Virtual Rector?

By Mike Patterson
Madisonville, Kentucky, is 150 miles from the nearest major city, and the town's small Episcopal church has been unable to attract a new rector. After moving services online like many other churches, the vestry is asking itself, "Is it reasonable to come up with a virtualized rector?"
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Archives: 1945 Atomic Bomb Evokes Horrors

Seventy-five years ago, a B-29 bomber dropped the first wartime atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing between 90,000 and 146,000 people. Along with celebration of the Japanese surrender that soon followed, TLC called for a moral reckoning.
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Ethics: Ageism
and the Fear of Death

By Rob Merchant
An inability to see the coming glory of the kingdom of God in the body and life of those experiencing age points to a poverty in the Church’s eschatological vision. Ageism not only inhibits and distorts our understanding of older people; it also distorts and disrupts our own journey of aging in Christ.
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Our Language

By Sarah Cornwell
Sarcasm can be written with good intentions, absent of rage and sneering, even if those intentions are ultimately misunderstood. However, if sarcasm is used in anger — even righteous anger for a just cause — the writer risks not only harming his own argument, but harming himself as well.
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Jane Austen's
Anglican Ordinal

By David Goodhew
Scholars say Jane Austen's message is strictly secular, but her novel Mansfield Park has a plot so intertwined with Christian ministry that it can reasonably be seen as Austen’s version of the Anglican ordinal (the rites of ordination). And it speaks to each of us, ordained or lay.
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Abraham & Sarah,
Slaveholders

By Ephraim Radner
Abraham and Sarah’s slaveholding was biblically notorious. Yet, they are celebrated by Jews and Christians alike. We sing about them in our Psalms, and acclaim them in our liturgies for the Easter Vigil. It is no surprise that some modern readers of the Bible worry about these accolades and the moral message they might embody.
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