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UPDATED: Episcopal Church bishops respond to Primates

January 20, 2016 35 Comments

Responses to the Primates’ communiqué by bishops of The Episcopal Church.

Washington National Cathedral opens its space for Seeing Deeper

January 20, 2016 6 Comments

In early February, the National Cathedral has planned Seeing Deeper, five days of events intended for visitors to experience the cathedral’s space in a new

Downton Abbey: The vicar makes an appearance

January 20, 2016 19 Comments

It has already been noted that religion is almost nonexistent in the well-loved PBS series Downton Abbey (now in its final season). With the long-awaited

ACNA head errs on Church Pension Plan

January 20, 2016 69 Comments

“… any vested retirement benefits that have been earned by the cleric up to the date of deposition or removal will be available to the cleric when he or she retires.”

From our friends to the north

January 19, 2016 19 Comments

It was not open to him, argued Dr Hiltz, to offer to suffer the same consequences alongside his brother bishop, since this would preempt the decisions of the Anglican Church of Canada’s own General Synod this July.

Anglican Covenant Design Group lawyer: Primates can’t require

January 19, 2016 76 Comments

“I find it utterly extraordinary,” the director of the Centre for Law and Religion at Cardiff University, Professor Norman Doe, said on Tuesday. “No instrument exists conferring upon the Primates’ meeting the jurisdiction to ‘require’ these things. . . Whatever they require is unenforceable.”

Curry isn’t coming …

January 19, 2016 1 Comment

“The realization that YOU weren’t coming to St. Paul’s to lead us outside the church was a jolt. We concluded that if we truly believed in your message, WE would have to become the agents of evangelism within our community.”

From our friends in the South

January 19, 2016 26 Comments

UPDATED: How global is the Global South when it comes to the Anglican Communion?

Romal Tune and Richard Rohr on white privilege

January 18, 2016 27 Comments

Richard Rohr has an open and frank conversation with Romal Tune about white privilege and the ways he thinks we can dismantle it in Christianity.

Repercussions for Church of England after Primates vote?

January 18, 2016 25 Comments

A noted theater director petitions the United Kingdom to remove Church of England Bishops from the House of Lords to comply with anti-discrimination laws; Jonathan Merritt chastises the Anglican Communion for focusing on human sexuality while remaining mum on the less controversial sin of supporting oppressive governments efforts to criminalize LGBTQ people, and Primate Philip Richardson shares his experience from the Primates’ meeting.

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