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John Smyth, as seen in the Channel 4 investigative report in 2017


** Makin Report Leads to Charges Against 10 Clergy
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By Douglas LeBlanc

Some of the 10 clergy, including George Carey, the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury, say they did not receive information about John Smyth’s abuses. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Church Center Cuts 14 in Staff Realignment
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By Meredyth Albright

The 14 terminations and 16 early retirements help the church center shift from a staff of 143 to 110 and save the church approximately $2.13 million per year in personnel costs, surpassing goals set by General Convention. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Judge Blocks ICE Enforcement at Some Churches
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By Mark Michael
The narrow ruling says ICE policy violates the plaintiffs’ exercise of faith that values “communal worship, service to immigrants, and pacifism.” Read on ([link removed]) .


** Solidarity and Mercy Drive Care for Ukrainian Refugees
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By Jeffrey MacDonald

Chris Herlinger, an Episcopalian and humanitarian journalist from New York City, reports on how nuns in Poland mobilize to meet a raft of urgent needs. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Letters to the Editor
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Words from our readers about loving your Episcopal neighbors and the controversial ministry of Joseph René Vilatte. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Podcast: Anglican Sojourn, Orthodox Heart
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Writer and priest's wife Kate Kilcup Marsh recounts her journey through radical conversion, the military, and marriage, and the beauty of God that carried her East and West. Listen here ([link removed]) .


** ‘Less Anglican and More Catholic’
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By Christopher Wells

The Anglican Communion’s director of unity, faith, and order, brings our series on the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals to a close, calling for opportunities of encounter by which strangers can again become friends. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Immigration and the Dignity of the Human Person
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By Jonathan Mitchican

Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that only little by little extend to other groups, but rather, per Christ’s parable of the Good Samaritan, encompass all. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Communion Structures: The Vision Awaits the Time
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By George Sumner

What will be necessary now for the Anglican Communion to survive as a fellowship, at once expansive and capable of expressing what is normative? Read on ([link removed]) .


** Learning to Read and Write
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By Tyler Been

What does it mean to read and write? What does it take to digest ideas from the written page, and likewise to express our own ideas in the same form? Read on ([link removed]) .


** Practicing Blessing
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By Victoria Heard

Blessing as a spiritual habit changes one’s perception of the world. We reaffirm and name the goodness or beauty or grace of someone or something in creation. Read on ([link removed]) .

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