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Two Teachings — Here, There, and Everywhere (Part 1)

Editors' Note: This is the first of a three-part series; these essays will appear sequentially this week. Part One Is there a contradiction? “Does this violate the...

Debunking Myths and Avoiding Episcopal Overreach: Conducting Clergy Searches According to the Canons

Consider the following scenarios: A Search Committee is told they must wait patiently for a list of rector candidates from the diocese. They are not...

Decline is a Choice

By Jordan Hylden Like everyone else, I found the 2019 parochial report statistics very sobering reading. As David Goodhew summarized, TEC has lost about 40...

Abortion, Faith, and Clarity

Catholic News Agency, as part of EWTN’s global media family, has a charism for making plain what is often obscured by political rhetoric. A...

Episcopal Overreach in Canada

Whatever happens in one part of the Anglican Communion, will have an impact on the whole Communion. The preservation of the historic teaching on an important doctrine and the defiant response to it will no doubt send a confusing message to the Communion. The Canadian Church has yet to find a way of preserving that teaching in an ordered way and still extending a pastoral heart to those who struggle. Such is the reality of God’s mission in the world.

Canadian Conservatives Issue Post-Synod Call to Humility, Faithfulness

The Anglican Communion Alliance and the Communion Partners' Vancouver Statement criticizes canonical judgment permitting same-sex marriages, commits to remaining within Anglican Church of Canada.

Our Present Squalor: An Open Letter to the Anglican Church of Canada

I am set apart from most of the contributors here by the fact that I was and continue to be supportive of queer sexualities and have never tried to hide this fact. I want to explain here why I was so troubled by the General Synod of 2016 and its aftermath when I was supportive of same-sex marriage, and why it troubled me to the point that I seriously considered leaving the Anglican Church entirely. All of these problems have, most regrettably, only gotten worse, and I write this letter in deep ambivalence, pain, and desperation.

The Scope of the Marriage Canon: Against the Chancellor’s Memo

The chancellor’s memo specifically included a means of bypassing the marriage canon regardless of the outcome of General Synod voting.

Ending 50 Years of Solitude

The Cuban church’s desire to rejoin the Episcopal Church is at loggerheads with canon law in Austin, challenging Episcopalians to keep one eye on the Spirit and one eye on the rules.

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