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

Makin Report Leads to Charges Against 10 Clergy

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

Church Center Cuts 14 in Staff Realignment

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

Judge Blocks ICE Enforcement at Some Churches

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

Solidarity and Mercy Drive Care for Ukrainian Refugees

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

Letters to the Editor

Words from our readers about loving your Episcopal neighbors and the controversial ministry of Joseph René Vilatte. Read on.

Podcast: Anglican Sojourn, Orthodox Heart

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

‘Less Anglican and More Catholic’

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

Immigration and the Dignity of the Human Person

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.

Communion Structures: The Vision Awaits the Time

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

Learning to Read and Write

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.

Practicing Blessing

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

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