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Exactly how big is the Anglican Communion?

November 13, 2015 10 Comments

A study published in the Journal of Anglican Studies says that the Anglican Communion is probably smaller that we think.

Andover Newton Seminary seeks to make big changes

November 12, 2015 7 Comments

Oldest independent Protestant seminary in America seeking to make bold moves to maintain viability and relevance into the future.

Privilege of Belonging

November 12, 2015 1 Comment

Heidi Shott offers a reflection on the privileges and consequent responsibilities of belonging

Conservative Christians, equality, inclusion and the path from here

November 12, 2015 10 Comments

Religion Dispatches looks at the conservative Christian response to marriage equality and sees two possible paths being followed, but it isn’t clear where either might lead

The Revd Canon Nancy Charton, South Africa’s first female priest, has died

November 11, 2015 3 Comments

Via ACNS: The Revd Canon Nancy Charton, the first woman to be ordained to the priesthood in South Africa, has died. “I remember Nancy fondly

Are you feeling generous?

November 11, 2015 1 Comment

While the number of people giving money to charity had dropped back from 68% to 63%, volunteer rates in the US are on the rise

Praying for peace in an age of war

November 11, 2015 1 Comment

They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them

“We give you praise for the gifts of perseverance, teaching and wisdom made manifest in your servant, Artemisia Bowden, whom you called far from home for the sake of educating the daughters and granddaughters of former slaves in Texas.”

Arrests continue worrying trend

November 10, 2015 No Comments

Following fires in churches around the country, and in the wake of this summer’s shooting at Emanuel AME church in Charleston, SC, the arrest this

Forty years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, Mariners’ Church remembers

November 10, 2015 4 Comments

Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the loss of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, with all twenty-nine lives aboard.