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General Convention Uncertain for 2021

By Kirk Petersen
“We have concluded with regret that we must plan as if our traditional 10-day gathering of 10,000 people or more will not be possible in 2021.”
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Council Focuses
on Race & Money

By Kirk Petersen
"Something's different about this one," said Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry at the start of the four-day Executive Council meeting. He was referring to the current racial upheaval, but could just as easily have been talking about the meeting itself.
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Reopening Dilemma For Altar Guilds

By Neva Rae Fox
When churches reopen, eucharistic safety will be a key concern, and much of the responsibility will fall on Altar Guilds.
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Bishop Roundup: GA, OK, MN, WY, AL, SC

By Mark Michael
Three bishops have been consecrated in socially distanced services in recent weeks, and the selection and election process is continuing in other dioceses.
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Church Gardens
Feed the Needy

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
The Church is supporting congregations in starting or expanding gardens on church-owned land, to provide fresh produce to food pantries.
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Podcasts: Part-Time
& Prison Ministries

Long-time TLC correspondent and ordained minister G. Jeffrey MacDonald discusses his new book, Part-Time Is Plenty: Thriving Without Full-Time Clergy, In another episode, prison chaplain Hannah Bowman focuses on prison conditions in the United States.
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Why Go Back to Church?

By Francis H. Wade
Church attendance has been dwindling for years. With the habit interrupted, many will wonder why they attend at all. "We who have inherited the great treasure of corporate worship will now have to fight for it."
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"I Can't Breathe"

By Pamela A. Lewis
"I, like many African-Americans, am not surprised by this latest killing, because it is not new. It has taken different forms, and has occurred in myriad places, but it goes back 400 years,"
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