Category: The Lead

Sewanee student Peggy Owusu-Ansah to peers: Save your tears

“After this weekend, or maybe even following these last six weeks have you felt embarrassed? Upset? Degraded? Worried for your safety? Try feeling that every day. The lacrosse game is not the “proof” we needed to see that Sewanee is racist, you just have not been paying attention. “

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Sewanee students use n-word

“So pronounced were the shouted slurs in the third quarter that the game officials on the field ordered that Sewanee fans be cleared before play could continue,” Sewanee’s first Black president and vice chancellor wrote in an email to the campus community.

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Seattle dean: Your marriage is blessed by God

As Dean, I would say to you: your union is not illicit, your marriage is indeed blessed by God, and we know the Church is the richer for your presence and witness in our midst. Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, you are welcome here! – The Very Reverend Steven L. Thomason, Dean and Rector, St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle

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Welby Responds to Ndukuba

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has issued a statement in response to last week’s letter by the Archbishop of Nigeria, Henry Ndukuba, in which

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Former diocese of ACNA calls on ACNA to repent

The Anglican Diocese of the Trinity (ADoTT) has joined the Anglican Church of Nigeria (CoN) in its criticism of the Anglican Church in North America for its “gay stand.” Located in Canada, the Diocese of the Trinity is a satellite of the CoN. It was formerly a diocese of ACNA.

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What is Prayer?

“Is this prayer?
this note
and words
the tapping of keys across the screen
the waiting and wondering.”

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Without mention of Church of Nigeria criticism, ACNA responds

The Anglican Church of North America has responded to criticism from the Anglican Church of Nigeria over ACNA’s recent statement regarding persons of (in ACNA’s words) “persons with same-sex attraction.” ACNA’s response makes no reference to the criticism by the Anglican Church of Nigeria, and deflects that criticism of its statement onto a “Dear Gay Anglicans” letter issued by some ACNA members, lay and clergy.

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