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All Services Canceled in DC, NE Virginia

By Kirk Petersen
The bishops of the dioceses of Washington and Virginia have canceled all public worship services in response to the coronavirus crisis.
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New Primate
for All Ireland

By Mark Michael
F. John McDowell, who has been Bishop of Clogher since 2011, was elected Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland by the Church of Ireland’s House of Bishops on March 11.
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Bishops Withhold Common Cup

By Mark Michael
A modern virus has collided with centuries-old theological controversies, as bishops throughout the Episcopal Church are urging various changes to eucharistic practices.
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TLC ARCHIVES:
1918 Flu Pandemic

In the face of government-mandated, nationwide church closings during the deadly 1918 flu pandemic, The Living Church suggested workarounds for providing worship services and Eucharists.
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How Did This Happen?

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
After a suspended priest pleaded guilty to child pornography and was accused of sexual assault, people in Holyoke, Massachusetts, are asking why the problems were not discovered during screening.
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The Fastest-Growing Episcopal Churches

By Kirk Petersen
Despite a steady drumbeat of articles about drops in attendance at Episcopal churches, there are some churches experiencing robust growth. Here's a look at 10 of them.
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The Usurpation
of Information

By Chip Prehn
The impressive information access we enjoy is nine-tenths acting; it involves very little thinking. The right answers are packaged for us. They are preconceived. Are we devolving into hunter-gatherers of the cyber age, even as our information technology gets more and more advanced?
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Nature, Grace,
& Adoption

Review by Abigail Woolley Cutter
In Not by Nature But by Grace, Gilbert C. Meilaender acknowledges the goodness and original claim of biological parenthood, the real loss incurred by both child and biological parent(s) when this original tie must be severed, and the total dignity and equal worth of an adoptive relationship.
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