The Living Church

For other uses of "Living Church", see Living Church (disambiguation).

The Living Church

Editor	Mark Michael
Categories	Religious magazine
Frequency	Biweekly
Publisher	Matthew S. C. Olver
Founder	Samuel Smith Haris
Founded	1878
Company	The Living Church Foundation
Country	United States
Based in	Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Language	English
Website	livingchurch.org
ISSN	0024-5240

The Living Church is a magazine based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, providing commentary and news on the Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion. It is the flagship publication of The Living Church Foundation. In continuous publication since 1878, it has generally been identified with the Anglo-Catholic wing of Anglicanism, and has been cited by national newspapers as a representative of that party. It absorbed a number of earlier Anglo-Catholic publications, including The American Churchman, Catholic Champion (1901), and The Angelus (1904). Theologically and culturally, it tends to have a moderate-to-conservative slant.

On June 21, 1931, the last issues of associated periodicals, The Young Churchman and The Shepherd's Arms were published.

The Executive Director and Publisher of The Living Church Foundation is Matthew S. C. Olver and the Editor-in-Chief of The Living Church Magazine is Mark Michael. The periodical is a member of the Associated Church Press, a religious periodical group. Some of the magazine's content has been made available online since the late 20th century.

Editors and Executive Directors

• Samuel Smith Harris (1878–1879)
• John Fulton (1878–1879)
• Charles Wesley Leffingwell (1879–1900)
• Frederic Cook Morehouse (1900–1932)
• Clifford Phelps Morehouse (1932–1952)
• Peter Morton Day (1952–1964)
• Carroll Eugene Simcox (January 1964 – 1977)
• H. Boone Porter (1977–1990)
• David Kalvelage (1990–2009)
• Christopher Wells (editor; 2009–2019; Executive Director, 2019-2022)
• Mark Michael (editor; 2019–present)
• Matthew S. C. Olver (Executive Director and Publisher; 2023–present)

See also

• The Anglican Digest
• The Anglican Way
• The Church Times
• Linden H. Morehouse

References

• Kalvelage, David (2015). Is King Charles a Saint Yet? Letters to The Living Church Across Fourteen Decades. Cincinnati, Ohio: Forward Movement. ISBN 978-0-880-28423-3.
• Mammana, Richard J. (2015). "A Brief History of the Living Church Foundation". The Living Church. The Living Church Foundation. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
• Bibliography of articles by Harry Boone Porter, Jr. in The Living Church 1972-1998, compiled by Richard Mammana

External links

• Official website
• The Layman's Magazine of the Living Church