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** Evangelicals and Episcopalians
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I’ve written in these emails before about the importance and the joy of learning from other traditions, whether other religions entirely or different expressions of Christian faith. We have two new articles this week that have been making waves online, and both of them reminded me of this theme.

Katherine Willis Pershey is a huge fan of the work of the late minister and writer Eugene Peterson. She makes the case that when some progressive Christians write him off, they miss out on treasures of pastoral wisdom ([link removed]) . The other new highlighted article, from Danielle Tumminio Hansen, responds to the appointment of Sarah Mullally as the first ever archbishop of Canterbury who is a woman. This piece isn’t about learning from other traditions, but I who am outside the Anglican Communion was fascinated by the Episcopal priest Hansen’s exploration of gender in corporations and religious institutions ([link removed]) .

Scroll down for even more great new content. We have a new editorial about the crisis of fascism in the US ([link removed]) , an essay about how Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead ([link removed]) reads after 20 years, a new poem about the miracle that is a Siamese cat ([link removed]) , and even more.

Jon Mathieu
Email me (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Religious%20tradition(s)&body=Jon%2C%20) : What do you love about your own religious tradition? What do you admire about another one?
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** Please, liberal Christians, read Eugene Peterson ([link removed])
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“Above all, it was Eugene Peterson’s insistence that we live and minister as if God is real. He is the person who taught me, at long last, to pray. I did not need to agree with everything he thought, even about some things that matter a great deal, to be grateful on an eternal scale.”

by Katherine Willis Pershey
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** Sarah Mullally breaks the Anglican Communion’s glass ceiling ([link removed])
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“I celebrate the milestone of the first woman to become archbishop of Canterbury. But I worry there’s a glass cliff waiting for her.”

by Danielle Tumminio Hansen
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** Facing fascism ([link removed])
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“As lawless gangs of ICE agents terrorize city neighborhoods, it’s getting harder to maintain that the United States is a democracy.”

from the editors
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** In the Lectionary for November 9 (Ordinary 32C) ([link removed])
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God’s parentage operates by entirely different logic than human patriarchy.

by Nick Peterson
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** The reverent, subversive Gilead ([link removed])
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“Gilead reads as confrontational against today’s wave of performative religiosity. Neither mawkish nor moralizing, the novel is now subversive (whatever Robinson intended two decades ago).”

by Ibrahim N. Abusharif


** Simply Miraculous ([link removed])
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“what flourish, his feathery / sensor so elegantly engineered / it must be heaven-made”

poem by Suzanne Underwood Rhodes
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