On December 11, I will be leaving my position as canon for communications and advancement for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington to form Canticle Communications, a strategic communications partnership that will work primarily with church clients. My partner is Rebecca Wilson, whose work Café readers may remember from this summer’ s General Convention.
The problem with applying the imagined community to Anglicanism is that it implies two contradictory things – an imagined community of identification that does not need and should not have an enforced reality (people imagine a Communion that is otherwise loose and made of of autonomous Churches) and then an imagined community that magnetically calls forth a project for governance.
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Unlike the Lambeth Conference, the General Convention is a legislative gathering. This isn’t to say that there won’t be stories around the edges: the Archbishop of Canterbury and a number of Anglican primates are coming, and there are receptions, meet-ups and chance encounters by the dozen. Still, the big stories will likely unfold in committee rooms and on the floors of the House of Deputies and the House of Bishops
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Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Charles A. Blanchard to the post of General Counsel, Department of the Air Force, Department of Defense.
You’ve read our April Fool’s Day offering, now have a look at others, including one from our friend, Pluralist.