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Acquisition of C.M. Almy Reflects Industry Shifts


By Mark Michael

C.M. Almy and Sons, among the Episcopal church’s best-known vestment making and church goods companies, has been acquired by F.C. Ziegler, America’s largest manufacturer of church supplies. Read on.

Ordination of Women Approved in Central Africa


By Kirk Petersen

Of the 42 autonomous provinces in the Anglican Communion, the traditionally Anglo-Catholic Province of Central Africa was the largest that heretofore prohibited ordaining women under all circumstances, and the only one in Africa. Read on.

High Court Orders Primate's Early Retirement


By Douglas LeBlanc

The Madras High Court has ruled that a constitutional amendment delaying the retirement age for the Church of South India’s bishops did not pass with the required two-thirds majority. Read on.
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They Ran Out of Wine

A Short Story

By Carter Keithley

It occurred to me that “those people” were among the kind that Jesus chose to be his followers. He would have chosen those in baseball caps, not in blazers. I had failed to be a healer. Read on.

Déjà Vu All Over Again


By George Sumner

The bottom has fallen out of the number of marriages, and baptisms are not far behind. Average Sunday attendance nationally is down a third, to 35. The shortage of clergy for a plethora of small, often rural, churches is severe. Answers are not immediately evident, so let us begin somewhere else, somewhere earlier. Read on.

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