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Oregon Picks New Bishop Via Zoom

By Kirk Petersen
The Rev. Dr. Diana Akiyama, currently a parish priest and dean of a diocesan school for clergy formation in Hawaii, was elected the XI Bishop of Oregon on August 29, in the first bishop election conducted virtually.
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Zimbabwe Anglicans Back Catholic Bishops

By Mark Michael
Zimbabwe’s Anglican bishops spoke up for their Roman Catholic colleagues, responding to vicious verbal attacks from leaders of the embattled government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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Itinerant Texas Church to Move Again

By Mike Patterson
A church building that "has gotten around more than a medieval saint" is going to be physically moved for a third time in Texas. It will become part of the 19-acre National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University, where it will be used to explain the role churches played in the settling of the West.
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Podcast: Church Music Adapts in Coronatide

Music opens us to God. But what can we do if it's dangerous to sing or play? Dr. Marty Wheeler Burnett, president of the Association of Anglican Musicians, joins us on the podcast to talk about current best practices and new normals.
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Church of England Diocese in Fiscal Crisis

By Michael Mark
Sodor and Man, whose jurisdiction comprises the historically poor Isle of Man, a self-governing crown dependency located in the Irish Sea, lacks the large stabilizing endowments possessed by some historic English dioceses. Because of the pandemic, it could "run out of money" in the next five years.
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The Loss of Ritual
In Coronatide

By Matthew S. C. Olver
As all of us who have tried to worship at home know, whether staring at a computer or television screen, it is only the palest shadow of praying and singing and engaging in the liturgy as a community.
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4th Commandment: Sabbath Dilemma

By Abigail Woolley Cutter
Are we called on to treat the Sabbath literally as a day of rest? Or can we benefit from the spiritual meaning of Sabbath without observing strict sabbatarianism?
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Environmental Racism in Colonial Barbados

By Mark Clavier
The Church today has generally been slow to recognize how the West’s demand for cheap goods, the global expansion of monocropping, and our reliance on predominantly non-white cheap labor are devastating our planet. There are lessons to be learned from the slave trade and worn-out soil in colonial Barbados.
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