1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (472+ words) Anglican Communion News Service has gathered the expectations of five members of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC). Notably, none of the published remarks mention the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals. Nevertheless, the webpage devoted to the 19th meeting of the ACC mentions the Proposals…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (222+ words) Tertullian's words in his On Idolatry (c210) may be a little confusing. He contrasts Christian and pagan festivals, highlighting that pagan celebrations can never add up to "a Pentecost." He did not mean, however, a discreet feast day, one that commemorates…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (392+ words) Episode 173 " 21st May 2026 " The Living Church The Episcopal Church is aging. Where are the young people? A campus minister gives his perspective. The average age of an Episcopal parishioner is now mid-60s. Older parishioners are vital. But where are'the young people? How…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (324+ words) Eleanor Roosevelt's Nightly Prayer The Religious Life of the First Lady of the World By'Donn Mitchell Morehouse Publishing, 240 pages, $26. 95 Biographers often treat their subjects' early years in a brief way, then investigate their mature years at length. Mitchell does almost…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (869+ words) The famous celebration of the Martyrs of Uganda at Namungongo has been suspended, following the outbreak of the lethal Ebola virus in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and some parts of Uganda. The event, which is celebrated annually on June…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (185+ words) Five years have now passed since the 2021 coup in Burma (Myanmar). This latest episode in the country's long history of military rule has led to a complex state of armed unrest. Concern for minority Christian communities globally has also surged…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (439+ words) The title of this essay is the name of a resolution that passed at the convention of the Diocese of Washington on January 31. It was a late submission. Given the emotion provoked by the issue of immigration and the direction…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (552+ words) The Diocese of Taiwan, the only ecclesiastical district of the Episcopal Church in Asia, has elected a new bishop. The Rev. Keith Chen-Cheng Lee, rector of Good Shepherd Church in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, was elected on the fourth…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (343+ words) The Rev. Thomas Augustus Fraser III, the son and namesake of the eighth Bishop of North Carolina(1965-83), died April 16 at 80. He served in the Diocese of Chicago for the whole of his parish ministry, including 42 years at St. Paul's Episcopal…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (518+ words) A Nigerian bishop favors adding a qualifier to the Book of Common Prayer's intercession for those in authority: "Cursed is any politician who intends or attempts to rig the forthcoming 2027 general elections in the country." Bishop Ndubuisi Obi of the…...