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Joanne Grenfell, lead bishop for safeguarding, introduces debate on the Makin Report. | Geoff Crawford/Church of England
** ‘Penitent’ Church of England Votes on Safeguarding
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By Gavin Drake
The Archbishop of York survived a vote of no confidence, and General Synod members backed a compromise that places the church’s national safeguarding team under independent oversight while leaving diocesan safeguarding in bishops’ hands. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Title IV Compromise Leads to Earlier Retirement in Easton
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By Mark Michael
Both cases against Bishop Marray have been dismissed, and he will step down a year earlier than planned, a decision “endorsed” by Presiding Bishop Rowe. Fifteen percent of the diocese’s congregations will have DEPO for the remainder of his ministry. Read on ([link removed]) .
** USAID Freeze Worsens Sudanese Crisis
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By Cara Meredith
“Those who were already dependent on USAID are now in crisis. There’s no food, no medicine. People are dying from cholera and malaria. … What are they supposed to do?” asked Lina Ajaak of D.C.’s South Sudanese Community Association. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Church Joins Suit Challenging ICE Raids
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By Meredyth Albright
Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe: “We are seeking the ability to fully gather and follow Jesus’ command to love our neighbors as ourselves.” Read on ([link removed]) .
** Iwerne Camps Scandal Expands to Late Vicar
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By Douglas LeBlanc
David Fletcher, who completed his ministry at St. Ebbe’s in Oxford, is accused of being “inappropriately tactile” with women and girls. Read on ([link removed]) .
** USAID Shutdown an Opportunity, Kenyan Primate Says
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By Jesse Masai
Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit: “Let us be disrupted so that we think properly and manage our resources properly.” Read on ([link removed]) .
** Water and Wilderness Church Combines Nature and Worship
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By Meredyth Albright
Pete Nunnally: “Water and Wilderness seeks to undo the formation of intentional and unintentional limits that our liturgy has put on what the church is, who God is.” Read on ([link removed]) .
** An Episcopus Vagans Who Never Stopped Wandering
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By Greta Gaffin
In addition to his brief ministry in the Diocese of Fond du Lac in the 1880s, Joseph René Vilatte was, at various points, a Catholic, an Old Catholic, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, and a Congregationalist. Read on ([link removed]) .
** A New Future for the Anglican Communion?
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By Graham Tomlin
Kicking off a two-week series on the succession at Canterbury and its role in the Anglican Communion, the chair of the Communion’s doctrinal commission introduces the recent Nairobi-Cairo Proposals. Read on ([link removed]) .
** The Nairobi-Cairo Proposals in Context
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By Andrew Goddard
The Nairobi-Cairo Proposals represent the fifth significant attempt to address challenges in the Anglican Communion, attempts which span decades. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Time for a Mary After a Martha?
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By Graham Kings
This two-part series places the selection of the next Archbishop of Canterbury in the context of recent predecessors, surveys the accomplishments of Justin Welby’s tenure, and offers profiles of six possible successors. Part One ([link removed]) ; Part Two ([link removed]) .
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