Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Living with history: Begin with questions-- Tradition begins at home-- Returning to our roots-- Tradition, traditions, and traditionalists-- Can anything new be true

Ten Touchstones of history: Called into covenant-- The Incarnation-- The Gift of baptism-- Bibles in English-- Common Prayer-- The Voice and vote of laity-- Women in mission-- The civil rights movement-- The full inclusion of women in the church-- The recovery of spiritual life-- The best of pasts

The ministry we share: No second-class citizens-- Changing patterns of ministry-- Recovering the ministry of laity-- Seeing differently, seeing the whole/ Evelyn Underhill, William Stringfellow, Verna Dozier, and Charles Willie

Living with controversy: Conflict in early Christian communities-- Resolving conflict through compromise: The Elizabethan settlement-- Ignoring conflict: The American civil war-- Welcoming conflict: the new knowledge

Recycling tradition: Recycling theology-- Let us sing to the Lord-- The glorious works of nature-- Infused with divinity--/ Lancelot Andrewes, George Herbert and Thomas Traherne-- Reconsidering the lilies

New Occasions teach new duties: Living tradition-- Upward still and onward/ William Temple and Frances Perkins-- Keeping abreast with truth