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Bishop Scott Benhase leads worship at the Florida healing convocation.
‘A Beautiful First Step but a Long Way to Go’
By Kirk Petersen
Diocese of Florida clergy and lay leaders are still smarting from two failed episcopal elections, but one priest attending a convocation focused on healing noted “a shift in tone toward gentleness and care.” Read on.
LLF Bishop Quits Over Conservative Appointment
By Mark Michael
Bishop Helen-Ann Hartley resigned abruptly as a co-leader of the Church of England’s discernment about same-sex blessings after a conservative evangelical was appointed to advise the commission that will decide if the blessings violate church teaching. Read on.
Dean Alan Jones: Yoga & Palestrina
By Jeffrey Smith
A former cathedral organist remembers San Francisco’s legendary dean, a “progressive traditionalist,” who sometimes preached operatically. “The divine is unsayable,” he said. “That’s why we sing a lot.” Read on.
Ted Lasso in Wales
By Amber Noel
A year ago, when a cheerful American priest became vicar, St. Mary’s had 16 regular Sunday worshipers. Today it has nearly 60, a growth rate of over 300 percent, making for an underdog turnaround story like that of the football team on Apple TV’s Ted Lasso. Read on.
Podcast: Walk the Holy Land with Andrew Mayes
Amber Noel interviews the St. George’s College, Jerusalem professor about his new Lent book, which traces several roads where God moved among his people in the Bible, and those who live along them in today’s troubled Israel and Palestine. Listen here and read a review of the book here.
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Let's Put 'Woke' to Rest
By Garwood Anderson
“Weaponized and politicized, the four-letter word is handed to its adversaries on a silver platter, gathering into one diabolical family the responsibility for all that is deemed odious. Christians should eschew this rhetorical gamesmanship.” Read on.
Uncle Tom or New Negro?
By Brandt Montgomery
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois had a common goal of full equality for Black Americans, but their strategies were different. The failure to build unity was an unfortunate setback. Read on.
Honor, Shame, and the Gospel in the South
By Jody Howard
Wrestling with the sinful racial violence of the past begins with recognizing the humanity of others and carving out spaces for respectful disagreement. The Church must confess its failures, but can help build a gracious civic culture to foster this work. Read on.
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