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Bishop Teodoro Mendes Tavares of Ponta de Pedras, Brazil, and Archbishop Marinez Rosa dos Santos Bassotto approach Pope Francis for their joint blessing. | Neil Turner for IARCCUM
Catholic & Anglican Bishops United by Mission
By Douglas LeBlanc
The Pope and Archbishop Welby blessed Catholic and Anglican bishops from around the world who gathered in Rome and Canterbury for common prayer and encouragement; two female bishops from Latin America caused a bit of a stir. Read on.
Council Mulls Selection of New GC Officer
By Kirk Petersen
Executive Council highlights: laying the groundwork for selecting General Convention Executive Officer Michael Barlowe's successor; moving the Church Archives to Wisconsin; approving a budget with no reduction in diocesan assessments. Read on here and here.
Anglicans Celebrate Florence Li Tim-Oi
By Weston Curnow
Services in San Francisco and London honored the 80th anniversary of the ordination of Anglicanism’s first female priest, who served for years in a Chinese labor camp. Read on.
Mere Anglicanism Addresses ‘Gospel Hospitality’
By Sue Careless and Douglas LeBlanc
The annual Charleston gathering focused on responding to ‘the new morality.’ Several speakers focused on personal encounters that led them to faith, while conservative firebrand Calvin Robinson’s attack on women’s orders found him disinvited from the final panel. Read on here and here.
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Bring Back the Greeks
By Leander Harding
A 10-point strategy for mission to secular modernity: learn to ask and answer deep philosophical questions, save beautiful churches, pray the Great Thanksgiving, cultivate Marian spirituality, and more. Read on.
Lord is an Indispensable Word
By Adam Linton
“To call Jesus Lord doesn’t come naturally to any of us. That we should be able to call him Lord, with all that this is meant to mean, is itself God’s gift: a gracious, providential, and mysterious gift; given to us through the power of the Spirit.” Read on.
Consecrated Reading
By Dane Neufeld
Consecrating physical things relies on “a determination that certain purposes will be fulfilled, purposes that are easily lost, confused, or ignored in the Christian life.” It makes Bible reading on Smartphone at least a little suspect. Read on.
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