Author: Andrew Gerns

Essay Contest: How to choose a bishop?

Compare and contrast the two scenarios for how well they represent the Anglican Covenant values of interdependence and subsidiarity and the larger community issues of transparency, directness and candor.

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Playground as sanctuary

St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, which sits in the heart of a neighborhood often torn by shootings and stabbings, offered its backyard yesterday as a safe space for children to play.

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Gratitude for diversity

I don’t remember when the doilies disappeared, but by the time I was a teenager they were gone, and females went bare-headed in God’s house. Somehow the church survived.

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Scam? Integrity Uganda youth worker murdered? Perhaps not.

Police identified the head as that of Pasikali Kashusbe, one of the workers on Kigggundu’s farm and a member of Integrity Uganda. Pasikali and his partner Abbey are youth workers with Integrity Uganda charged with the responsibility of mobilising young LGBT people in activities which build community capacity to face up to the challenge of homophobia, especially in the area of attitude change and care through drama and sports activities.

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BBC’s ‘Rev’ bows

BBC Two has recently introduced “Rev,” a comedy about a modern Anglican inner-city church. U.S. viewers can’t see full episodes yet, but here are some previews. It looks like most of the humor of these semi-real paradoxes of modern ministry will translate pretty well over here.

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