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Hurricane Irma Bp. Responds to Dorian
By Kirk Petersen
When the Rt. Rev. Peter Eaton became the Bishop of Southeast Florida, he knew the job would involve leading a diocesan staff, ordaining new priests, and celebrating the Eucharist in every church in the diocese on a rotating basis. He didn’t know he’d be flying to a hurricane-ravaged country to deliver a satellite phone.
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Australians Delay Same-Sex Marriages
By Mark Michael
Bishop John Parkes of Australia’s Diocese of Wangaratta announced that he will suspend the authorization of same sex marriages, pending a ruling on the matter by the Anglican Church of Australia’s Appellate Tribunal.
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Episcopal-Founded Hospital Sold in L.A.
A Los Angeles hospital founded with nine beds by an Episcopal nun in 1885 is being acquired by a regional hospital group, and the local bishop is happy about the transaction.
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VTS Breaks Ground in Funding Reparations
By Kirk Petersen
Virginia Theological Seminary is creating a $1.7 million endowment that will fund “activities and programs that promote justice and inclusion,” including “the particular needs of any descendants of enslaved persons that worked at the Seminary.”
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Perspectives on Prayer Book Revision
Review by Calvin Lane
The issues at hand vary: gendered language, communion without baptism, our baptismal ecclesiology, the congruence of our liturgy with our canons, the norm of scripture in our corporate worship, and the whole concept of common (i.e., recognizably uniform) prayer.
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On Dogs and Altar Rails
By Micah Latimer-Dennis
The Prayer of Humble Access captures the theological drama of the encounter from Matthew 15: "We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table, but Thou art the same Lord whose property is always to have mercy."
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Jim Thompson and the Killer Inside Us All
By Jay Mullinix
Like Flannery O’Connor, Thompson used the sensational as a sort of shock treatment to jolt readers awake to their own moral torpor and hypocrisy. As such, his stories are shot through with themes that are fundamentally spiritual and existential.
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