We continue our series Advent Hope in Harsh Times this week by talking with Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley, one of our Canon Theologians and an Assistant Professor at Wheaton College, about what the Black church tradition can teach us about holding on to hope in harsh times. This is the theme of his book Reading [...]

We begin a new series today called Advent Hope in Harsh Times, talking with clergy and theologians about the themes of Advent and their relevance to our current cultural moment. In this inaugural episode we talk with Rev. Dr. Emily McGowin, one of our Canon Theologians and an Assistant Professor at Wheaton College, about the [...]

In the wake of the most contentious election of our lifetimes, David Taylor, C4SO's Scholar in Residence for Arts, Media, and Culture helps us understand how to bless our enemies (as Jesus commanded) while also allowing ourselves to feel our pain and grief (as the "curse" Psalms teach us). David and his wife Phaedra also [...]

We finish our inaugural series on the vision and values of C4SO with Bishop Todd reflecting on Sacrament as one of our five core values, unpacking the embodied assurance of God's presence in the sacraments, the connection between Eucharist and mission, and some advice for those weary of the ways the pandemic has limited our [...]

We continue our inaugural series on the vision and values of C4SO with Bishop Todd unpacking Mission as one of our five core values. We reflect on the relationship between the church and the mission of God, as well as Thomas Cranmer's introduction to The Book of Common Prayer, 1549, where he encouraged future changes [...]

We continue our inaugural series on the vision and values of C4SO with Bishop Todd unpacking Formation as one of our five core values. To be a disciple of Jesus is to undergo a process being formed as people who can live in God's kingdom. We talk about how formation is a partnership between God [...]

We continue our inaugural series on the vision and values of C4SO with Bishop Todd expanding on why we name "Spirit" as one of our core values. To be a disciple of Jesus is to rely on the power of the Spirit, because he calls us into ministry that cannot be accomplished in human strength [...]

We continue our inaugural series on the vision and values of C4SO in this episode, where Bishop Todd expands on what we mean by naming "Kingdom" as one of C4SO's core values. Jesus' Gospel of the Kingdom is the only explanatory system that can carry both the entire purposes of God and the full needs [...]

In this episode, Bishop Todd talks about the mission of C4SO: to establish beachheads of Jesus' person, word, and power in the midst of a struggling humanity, to cultivate a family of churches that lives into God’s intention for the Church by finding our core identity as ambassadors who create outposts of the rule and [...]

Bishop Todd continues his story from last week, focusing on how he was initially attracted to the winsome posture of the Anglican leaders he knew, and eventually found himself called into Anglicanism. He also shares the story of the beginnings of C4SO as a West Coast Anglican church planting movement, and his lifelong fascination with [...]