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Episcopal Schools Return Cautiously

By Neva Rae Fox
Episcopal schools are taking a variety of approaches to beginning the fall semester. They fall into three categories: in-person, completely online, or a hybrid of the two, with most planning for at least some in-person education.
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PPP Has Supported Churches & Ministry

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
The federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) distributed more than $1 million each to 56 Episcopal institutions around the country, including churches, schools, social services providers and homes for the elderly.
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Pandemic Affects Stewardship Efforts

By Neva Rae Fox
Autumn is the stewardship season for many churches, and some churches are incorporating websites, social media, apps, YouTube, digital dinners, videos, Zoom, and other new tools. It's a struggle to maintain a sense of abundance during an economic downturn.
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Welby Praises
UN Peace Efforts

By Mark Michael
As part of the 75th anniversary celebration of the United Nations, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby called the UN "the icon of the hopes and dreams of a world that wants to live at peace,” and urged faith communities to engage in cooperative work for peace.
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Aleksandr Men's Courage & Integrity

By Charles Hoffacker
Aleksandr Men, a prominent Russian Orthodox priest murdered in 1990, produced countless books on theology, engaged in a vigorous pastoral ministry, and guided numerous small groups within the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Podcast:
Daily Office 101

Why and how do we pray every day? In the latest edition of The Living Church Podcast, the Rt. Rev. John Bauerschmidt, Bishop of Tennessee offers both a history and a "how-to" of the Daily Office.
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Introducing
The Living Word

By Mark Michael
The Living Word is a new weekly email containing sermon resources to help engage the Revised Common Lectionary readings for the following Sunday. These include sermons from gifted preachers around the world, excerpts from classic homiletical, theological, and devotional texts, and articles on relevant themes from the archives of The Living Church, Covenant, and the Living Church Institute.
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Uses & Abuses
of a Doctrine

By Elizabeth Anderson
Should theology and spirituality be the exclusive domain of the clergy, while the calling of the laity is inherently secular in nature? Or should the theologically inclined laity essentially become junior clerics, participating in less intenisve versions the same kinds of training and ministry as clergy? Or... is there a third way?
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Shame & Glory
of the Evangelicals

By Peter C. Schellhase
In the early 19th century, some Episcopal leaders justified slavery with arguments that Blacks were an inferior race unsuited to freedom, that they needed the benevolent oversight of whites lest they return to the supposed barbarism of their ancestors. Virginia Evangelicals were more moderate, with one bishop backing a plan to repatriate free “persons of color” to a colony in West Africa.
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