Also: Keeping the Twelve Days, God’s Difficult Gift

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** Liberating the Kenyan Church from Political Corruption
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By Jesse Masai

“Politicians living flashy lifestyles and dishing out unexplained millions in fundraisers at churches each Sunday troubled me,” says Anglican layman Mwabili Mwagodi. The primate agrees. Read on ([link removed]) .


** IASCUFO Sees Shift to Resolving Communion’s Divisions
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By Mark Michael

The faith and order commission urged “generosity in the spirit of the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals,” and urges deeper engagement with the GSFA’s covenantal structure. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Diocese of Easton Considers ‘Creative Options’
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By Neva Rae Fox

The rural Maryland diocese is undertaking discernment requested by Presiding Bishop Rowe and supported by Church Center funding. But as Episcopal dioceses go, Easton is not very small. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Growth Through Grace in Waco
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By Weston Curnow

St. Alban’s extends hospitality by “focusing on newcomers, committing to caring for people, knowing people’s names, and following up.” Read on ([link removed]) .


** Young Choristers Sing Out at St. Thomas’, Toronto
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By Sue Careless

Mentorship, careful coaching, and engagement with the best of the Anglican choral tradition have helped the new choir at one of the city’s flagship Anglo-Catholic parishes make amazing progress. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Podcast: A Cozy Christmas Chat with Jeremy Begbie
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The Anglican theologian probes signs of the Incarnation in the arts, and how music, painting, poetry can help to unstick us, revealing our Lord in all the puzzling and startling smallness of his Nativity. Listen ([link removed]) .


** Keeping the Twelve Days of Christmas
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By Geoffrey Mackey

“If, indeed, joy has come to the world in the person of Emmanuel, the Word made flesh, then we have plenty of rejoicing to do, and it won’t fit into a solitary day.” Here are a few suggestions. Read on ([link removed]) .


** It’s Not Dead
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By Emilie Smith

Responding to David Goodhew’s assessment of the causes of decline in the Anglican Church of Canada, a Vancouver parish priest does not deny the reality of the numbers, but rather probes why. Read on ([link removed]) .


** God’s Difficult Gift
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By Joey Royal

O. Henry’s story “The Gift of the Magi” is about costly giving out of love. The costliest gift, though, comes to us from a loving Father: the gift is Christ. Read on ([link removed]) .


** From Crèche to Cross
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By Molly Jane Layton

The violence suffered by St. Stephen jolts us out of any sentimentality found in the crèche. With its resonances of Jesus’ crucifixion, his martyrdom takes us from the manger to the cross. Read on ([link removed]) .

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