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** New EDS Dean Seeks to Fill Gaps in Theological Education
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By Lauren Anderson-Cripps
An unaccredited seminary with neither buildings nor faculty — yet buttressed by a robust endowment — Episcopal Divinity School is determining what particular offering it will bring to the church in its current iteration. Its new dean, the Very Rev. Lydia Kelsey Bucklin, discusses how the school might fill gaps in the traditional theological education landscape. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Province of Central Africa to Become Three National Churches
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By Mark Michael
The Anglican Province of Central Africa intends to divide into three autonomous national churches and to allow dioceses to ordain women to the priesthood. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Pauli Murray Center Celebrates Groundbreaking Priest-Activist
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By Greta Gaffin
The center features exhibits about the life of the first Black woman ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church, as well as space for community and social-justice programs. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Teen’s Baptismal Journey Took 7,500 km
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By Douglas LeBlanc
An Anglo teenager who attends an underground church in China could not be baptized in his church or in the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, so he traveled to Australia to be baptized in a small, inflatable font. Read on ([link removed]) .
** ‘Classicism’ and Chaos in Dalí
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By Dennis Raverty
Salvador Dalí stated his intention of creating, with a camera’s accuracy, the dreamscape of the unconscious mind. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Podcast: Figural Graffiti with Joe Mangina
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Host Amber Noel sits down with theology professor Joe Mangina, of Wycliffe College, to discuss how poetry can teach us to read Scripture. L ([link removed]) isten here ([link removed]) .
** Loving the Bible
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By Barbara White
In this two-part series, a priest reflects on how she came to have a deep love of scripture and how she attempts to cultivate that same love in her congregation. Read Part 1 ([link removed]) and Part 2 ([link removed]) .
** An Illiberal Moment
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By John Bauerschmidt
Bishop Bauerschmidt reflects on our illiberal moment in American democracy. This challenge constitutes an undermining of the earthly peace that St. Augustine valued for the sake of the heavenly city. Read on ([link removed]) .
** The Dream of Isaiah: A Sacramental Vision of Divine Continuity
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By Samuel Cripps
A priest explores the sacramental continuity of God's mission of salvation, the salvation of Israel, through the medium of a mostly Gentile church. Read on ([link removed]) .
** A Thicker Constellation of Vocation
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By John Deepak Sundara
What if our contemporary understandings of vocation revolve around a too-narrow constellation of church, faith, image-bearing, passion, need, and life? What if we need a thicker constellation of vocation? Read on ([link removed]) .
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