Final Tweaks to Controversial Lambeth Calls Released 

By Mark Michael

Released on the Lambeth Conference’s one-year anniversary, the controversial Call on Human Dignity’s language was moderated slightly, while the Call on Anglican Identity was deeply reshaped to acknowledge deepening fractures. Read on.

RIP: Archbishop Michael Peers
By Sue Careless

Peers, who led the Anglican Church of Canada for 18 years, welcomed the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy, was a major advocate for the Inuit, and apologized for the failures of church residential schools. Read on.

Anglicans, Roman Catholics to Share Shrine in Peace
By Doug LeBlanc

Bishops in Northeast Wales have signed an agreement to share the St. Winefride Well Shrine in Holywell, which is said to be the British site with the longest continuous history of pilgrimage and healing. Read on.
 

Strategy and Tactics in Online Seminary Education
By Hannah Matis

Online seminary could work well for seminars on topics like reading spreadsheets and filing taxes, but I am less confident that students will develop theologically formed and informed habits of pastoral ministry. Read on.

Indiana's Date with Destiny
By Leander Harding

Spielberg’s latest offering is haunted by the Bible, and treats themes like right and wrong, good and evil, friendship and betrayal, courage, sacrifice, and genuine heroism, offering a vacation from contemporary cynicism and nihilism. Read on.

Christian Teaching in a Post-Literate Society
By Abigail Woolley Cutter

“Christian life need not be tied to high levels of literacy, so if we are teaching Christianity we must teach prayer, holy living, and the Church’s worship along with the Bible and other books. Yet Christianity does foster a special relationship to reading and writing.” Read on.