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Bishop of Uruguay Finds Call in Kansas
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (671+ words) At first glance the only similarity between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Emporia, Kansas, is the wind. Buenos Aires'is Spanish for fair wind. Emporia, located off I-35 in the heart of the Great Plains, has many "buenos aires." Any Kansan will tell…...
What is Your Parish's Top Priority?
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (774+ words) Progressives routinely explain that lower birth rates among Episcopalians (post-World War II) have caused the decline. Conservatives often point to liberal parish leadership as the cause. Yet perhaps there's a third way to explain the spotty growth and widespread decline. The…...
Means and Ends of Evangelism
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (985+ words) Means and Ends of Evangelism'The Living Church Means and Ends of Evangelism Please email comments to [email protected]. Archbishop Michael Ramsey is for many one of the most inspirational figures for Anglican ecumenism from the last century. The Gospel and the…...
Being the Love Church
1+ week, 1+ day ago (475+ words) For the Rev. Guy Leemhuis, vicar of St. Luke's of the Mountains in La Crescenta, California, leaning into a message of love means blending an Episcopal ethos with a handful of new and unexplored traditions. For Leemhuis and his leadership…...
Grasping God’s Grace
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (188+ words) Face to Face A Novel of the Reformation By'Amy Mantravadi 1517 Publishing, 368 pages, $29.95 Amy Mantravadi's'Face to Face'is the second of a two-part novel series that puts flesh and blood on towering figures of the Reformation'Martin Luther, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and Philip…...
Online Worship Attendance Shows Promise
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (733+ words) On any given Sunday across the Episcopal Church in 2024, more than 120,000 individuals accessed a service through livestream. The statistic is one of the new data points in the recently released 2024 Parochial Report. Of the 6,707 open parishes and missions, 94.1 percent provided…...
‘You Have Broken My Heart’—A Letter to My Siblings in GAFCON
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (601+ words) To my dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ in GAFCON: You have broken my heart. I will soon celebrate 20 years of ordained ministry. One of the things that has most sustained me, and what drew me into the Anglican tradition,…...
An Invitation to Chapel, Wycliffe College
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (492+ words) Editor's Note " The following "Solemn Charge & Exhortation" was given at the Convocation of Wycliffe College by their Chaplain. It is an Invitation to Chapel and the worshipping life of their community. Grace to you and peace from God our Father…...
Letters to the Editor, August 22
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (579+ words) Bishop Dan Martins" latest Covenant piece, "Grace in the Church"s Tensions," made me think about'diversity,'equity, and'inclusion, the bugaboo of the Trump administration. It seems to me that people in our church all welcome DEI in the political context…...
People and Places, August 21
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (310+ words) This is the first of two columns from the August 17 edition of TLC. The Rev.Roy Allisonis rector ofGrace, Hinsdale, Ill. The Rev.Hope Andersonis curate ofSt. James, Greenville, S.C. The Rev.Douglas K. Bleyleis priest in charge of the SJC Partnership (St....