Author: Andrew Gerns

Continuing split

Religion News Service summarizes the current struggle within the Anglican Mission in America and the difficulty the breakaway church has in maintaining an Anglican identity while drifting farther away from their roots.

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Improving police

The Rev. David Couper, who served as chief of the Madison, Wisconsin, Police Department from 1972 to 1993 talks about the “… tremendous moral laxity” of “our nation’s police [who have] not continued to move forward.”

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Contraception controversy round up

Updated:The firestorm continues over the administrations plan to ensure that women can have contraception covered under the employers health insurance plan, even if they work for a religious institution.

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Churches and public spaces

Debate is brewing in New York State over whether it is lawful or even wise for a school district to rent public space, particularly schools, to religious organizations for use after hours for worship or other programming.

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Teaching a trade

Timothy Park of Redmond, Oregon, documents the work of hair stylists who go to Nicaraugua to teach hair styling to women to help blunt the epidemic of prostitution.

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