As we enter into the Easter season, we're moving on and leaving behind Presiding Bishop Katherine Schori's collection of sermons, A WING AND A PRAYER. We'll take a break for a few weeks while preparing ourselves for our Pentecost selection, which comes from The New Church's Teaching Series, Stephen Holmgren's ETHICS AFTER EASTER.
ETHICS AFTER EASTER, which has been used by the Diocese of Northwest Pennsylvania's School for Ministry, is a great way to examine how we are doing in living into our baptismal promises that we affirmed on Easter Sunday. Holmgren takes a very Anglican approach to ethics, not merely as a set of strict rules, but as a series of axioms that help guide us to make moral decisions, both as individuals and as bodies of Christ in the church.
For many of us who wrestle with issues of environment, equality, sexuality, capital punishment, abortion, and the like, Holmgren provides us with historical anecdotes and contemporary interpretations of how we might navigate the moral minefield in contemporary culture and continue to reconcile ourselves to Jesus Christ and one another, as our baptismal promise states.
Feel free to post any responses to these and other comments, as well as offer your own end-of-text reviews of A WING AND A PRAYER!
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Since no one else comments, I've decided to do so myself!
While I enjoyed the P.B.'s reflections, and I share many (if not all) of her stances on inclusivity and hospitality in the T.E.C., I have to admit that the read was less than exciting. Many times, I'd turn the page and find myself thinking, "Oh...how nice...MORE OF THE SAME!" While a nice introduction to her core beliefs, in the end I found the lack of conflict or equal presentation of opposing points of view to be, even for a liberal like me, too one-sided.
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