Also: Radical Welcome & Good Boundaries, A Better Eschatology

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** St. Augustine’s Stabilizes Finances with Lease Deal, Staff Cuts
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By Mark Michael

The oldest historically Black Episcopal college has taken major steps to stabilize its precarious financial situation, signing a $70 million deal to lease property to a sports stadium firm and a halving of its workforce. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Anglican Church of Australia Debates Chastity
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By Robyn Douglass

The Diocese of Perth says its changes to the clergy discipline standards strengthen the meaning of faithfulness, but conservatives argue it leaves room for sex outside marriage. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Bishops Discuss Church Center Realignment
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By Mark Michael

“Administrative burden strains our capacity at the congregational and diocesan level. It actually inhibits our ability to focus on that core work of sharing the good news of Jesus Christ,” said the Rt. Rev. Craig Loya of Minnesota. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Jesus and the Great O Antiphons
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By David Cox and Michael McLaughlin

These medieval texts express the early Church’s teaching about our Lord’s two natures and expand on the creed by associating Christ with God’s saving actions from Creation to Incarnation. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Podcast: Radical Welcome & Good Boundaries
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Host Amber Noel talks with the Rev. Lis Goddard, whose Central London parish welcomes people who tend to be on the fringes of church life: the unhoused, those with mental illness, teens and kids, single people, those with dementia, and those with no family. Listen here ([link removed]) .


** Advent Invites Us to a Better Eschatology
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By Gene Schlesinger

“There is only one who judges in perfect justice. Yet that does not excuse us from aligning ourselves to the best of our ability with the standard of justice revealed in the life and ministry, death, and resurrection of the one whose coming we await.” Read on ([link removed]) .


** Personhood at the Heart of the Cosmos
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By Abigail Woolley Cutter

If religion exists only to explain and control, science and technology may well have the upper hand. But they miss something crucial about human life, which only flourishes in a world centered on a personal God. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Haidt & Rauch: The Constitution of Human Knowledge
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By Matt Boulter

The two thinkers ask good questions about freedom of inquiry, DEI, cancel culture, and the shift from print to online discourse. Can the institutions that served us in the “Gutenberg” era still operate in the “Network” era? Read on ([link removed]) .

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