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Coronavirus,
One Year Later

Dr. Lisa Gilbert, a physician with theological training, spoke with TLC a year ago about the medical and theological implications of the developing pandemic. Her thoughts on things like asymptomatic transmission and the coming shortage of hospital beds have held up well, so we caught up with her for a second interview.
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On Haiti's First Bishop
-- and the Next One

By J. Fritz Bazin
James Theodore Holly, the first African American bishop in the Episcopal Church, brought the Gospel to the people of Haiti. A century after his death, he is celebrated in Holy Women, Holy Men, but his diocese has struggled with governance issues and does not currently have a bishop.
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Australian Diocese Strapped for Cash

By Mark Michael
A bishop from New South Wales is seeking priests willing to raise their own financial support, as he has more than twice as many parishes as priests to lead them.
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Filling People
With God

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
An international movement called Fresh Expressions is fostering Christian community among people who are unlikely to enter a steepled church on a Sunday morning.
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The Secular Carnival
Of the Internet

By Kara Slade
The internet promised a garden of limitless community, but instead we got propaganda and PornHub, QAnon, and mob rule on Twitter. Christians, above all, should be unsurprised by this development. Eden, after all, never lasts.
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On Apocalyptic Mobs

By Mark Perkins
The destruction of Heather Heyer’s life was a direct result of the rally in Charlottesville. Only incidentally did it destroy my confidence in the pastness of the American past. That confidence rested upon illusions of inevitable progress built upon the stalwart solidity of the American experiment in self-government.
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All Depends on God,
So Get to Work

By Daniel Martins
Our prayer book tradition puts the onus on God: We are not able to “cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light” unless God is first there to “give us grace.” Grace is similarly necessary for us to heed the warnings of the prophets and “forsake our sins.”
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Jerusalem the Golden

By Mac Stewart
We should think about heaven more. This is not about escaping from the difficulties of the present moment, averting our eyes from the darkness around us and the darkness in our souls as just too much for us. It’s about allowing ourselves actually to hear the good news of the gospel.

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