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Many news outlets have reported on outbursts of intercommunal violence within the region since October 7, noting that Israeli and Palestinian police forces have had difficulty keeping it under control.
The Rev. Canon Peter Koon Ho-Ming, a senior leader of Hong Kong’s Anglican Church, has resigned his church position after being chosen as a member of Hong Kong’s legislature in a controversial “patriots only” election in late December.
By Lawrence N. Crumb Liturgical revision always begins with good intentions, but often ends with unintended results. When Archbishop Cranmer compiled the first Book of
Let us pray as our Lord taught us to pray.
Dean Matthias Der was a church planter in Toronto for twenty years before returning to Hong Kong to lead the city’s cathedral; Der assumes leadership in the midst of violent protests, with limited response from Hong Kong’s Anglicans.
A new congregation in Antioch, Calif., is named in honor of Deaconess Anna Alexander of Georgia, who was added to the church’s calendar by General Convention in 2018.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s message for Christmas 2018
Organist Nathan Stang faces a misdemeanor count of institutional criminal mischief for faux hate graffiti.
Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows looks back on becoming an Episcopalian.
Katharine Welby-Roberts speaks in support of Heads Together, which raises awareness of depression.
Frederick Schmidt: Creating a nursery for ambition “is a profound theological and spiritual mistake.”
Presiding Bishop: “We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, and our lives are bound up with theirs.”
“[T]his interim year in Denver will move me back into the kind of ministry I envisioned when I was ordained.”
The Archbishop of Wales has appointed the Rev. Mark Clavier as acting principal of the struggling St. Michael’s College, Cardiff.
By Mark F.M. Clavier • Even while consumerism claims to promote individuality, it compels conformity through the virtual and imaginary worlds it creates.
“Sadly, this prevents a pastoral solution to a sensitive issue of spiritual discernment,” says Bishop Jack L. Iker. “We are grateful to Bishop Keith Ackerman for his willingness to provide Sunday services at St. Timothy’s beginning on the first Sunday after Christmas Day.”
The correspondence published by the Diocese of South Carolina: Bishop Lawrence Responds The correspondence published by Episcopal Forum of South Carolina: Letter to Episcopal Forum
Structural Reform Hat tip: Ann Fontaine at Episcopal Café
