Episcopal Church
Intriguing ministry focused on creation care from California
https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2019/10/04/climate-change-to-be-focus-of-redlands-churchs-celebration-of-creation-service/
Bp Curry was in Canada for their General Synod and sat down for an interview with Anglican Journal
https://www.anglicanjournal.com/closer-to-jesus-of-nazareth-qa-with-bishop-michael-curry/
Bishop Curry waded into Reddit for an open forum
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2019/10/10/presiding-bishop-fields-faith-questions-from-reddit-users-in-ask-me-anything-session/
North Carolina parish joins with Lutheran partners to offer a service for grieving parents
https://www.morganton.com/mnh/churches-to-comfort-grieving-parents-through-service/article_6514f23e-28a8-52f9-b44f-bc0538529af9.html
An update on Connecticut’s effort to reshape diocesan governance
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2019/10/10/connecticut-diocese-engages-parishes-in-collaboration-by-replacing-deaneries-with-region-missionaries/
OpEd critical of Bishop Love in the Albany times Union
https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Bishop-William-Love-isn-t-living-up-to-his-oath-14495076.php
John Henry Newman’s Canonization
JOINT STATEMENT by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Anglican Church of Canada on the Occasion of the Canonization of Cardinal John Henry Newman
https://www.anglican.ca/news/joint-statement-of-the-occasion-of-the-canonization-of-cardinal-john-henry-newman/30025161/
NCR on the importance of Newman to the church of today
https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/newman-church-gains-its-saint-modern-times
Interesting article linking Vatican II and the Liturgical Reform Movement to Jon H. Newman
https://angelusnews.com/faith/newman-key-to-understanding-vatican-ii-and-ecclesial-movements-expert-says/
Anglican Communion
New Archbishop of the West Indies installed on Thursday
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/archbishop-gregory-to-get-the-trappings-of-his-new-office-on-thursday_176583?profile=1373
Britain
Ostensibly about the response of one diocese in England to the upcoming Brexit; this letter from the bishops of Oxford, provides a helpful list of pragmatic efforts to take in the event of any overwhelming crisis
https://blogs.oxford.anglican.org/a-christian-response-to-brexit/
Church leaders in Northern Ireland issue press release after meeting with government, addressing Brexit and upcoming changes to NI’s abortion laws
https://www.ireland.anglican.org/news/9117/church-leaders-meet-secretary-of
Other Interesting Items
A very interesting and wide-ranging discussion of the upcoming synod in the Amazon with one of the members of that synod
https://cruxnow.com/amazon-synod/2019/10/11/synod-member-weary-of-married-priest-debate-rues-getting-stuck-in-70s/
From Get Religion, a site that bemoans the MSM’s disinterest in covering church affairs has a post on the new Falls Church facility (ACNA)
https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2019/10/7/where-was-the-press-the-new-23-million-falls-church-anglican-sanctuary-gets-zero-coverage
A thought-provoking article on sin and evil and its persistence
https://www.christiancentury.org/article/first-person/how-i-learned-love-doctrine-total-depravity
From our Lutheran siblings, materials for creation care
https://www.lutheranworld.org/news/seeking-wisdom-listen-creation-and-learn-it
image: Cardinal John Henry Newman