The Covenant Journal: A Commentary on the Church

Number 24, March 2007

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Articles

Time to Say "No"

by William Carroll

Saying a gentle, but firm and resolute "no" to the [Anglican communion's] ultimatums will be a first step toward turning the power struggle into a conversation again, even if we are excluded at Lambeth ...

Two theologies

By John M Gessell

The present crisis in the Episcopal Church (and, indeed, in the worldwide Anglican Communion) is not just about the moral status of homosexuality and its expression. ... Nor is the crisis about the authority of Scripture ...

Mother Jesus

by Elizabeth Kaeton

In June of this year, the Episcopal Church elected a new Presiding Bishop. And life has never been more interesting. [...] Here, in part, is what [our new Presiding Bishop] said, "Our mother Jesus gives birth to a new creation and you and I are His children. If we're going to keep on growing into Christ-images for the world around us, we're going to have to give up fear." ... Yes, that's right. She said, "mother Jesus."

Reviews

John Crocker, Jr, A Rebirth of Freedom: The Calling of an American Historian, Thomas Payne Govan, 1907-1979, Xlibris Press 2005, Hardcover, 592pp, $26.99, ISBN: 1413430627

Barrie Shepherd, Whatever Happened to Delight? Preaching the Gospel in Poetry and Parables, Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville-London, 2006, Paperback, 146 pp., $17.95

Columns

Editorial - Oversight

Editorial - Mistakes were made

Peripatetikos

Benedicite