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Bishop Love Ends
His Lonely Fight

By Kirk Petersen
By announcing his resignation as the IX Bishop of Albany on October 24, the Rt. Rev. William H. Love spared the diocese and the wider Episcopal Church the potential bitterness of debating and imposing a penalty on him for defying the General Convention on same-sex marriage.
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Anglican Priest Is Seychelles President

By Mark Michael
Seychelles has elected an Anglican priest (and six-time candidate) as president of the island nation, in the first peaceful transfer of power since independence in 1976. The Rev. Wavel Ramkalaran vowed to work closely with his defeated rival.
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Nigerian Bishops Urge End to Police Brutality

By Mark Michael
Nigerian bishops are playing an active role in calling on the government to end police brutality against peaceful protestors, in a struggles with echoes of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. The Archbishop of Canterbury has also weighed in.
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Spreading the Gospel In Rural Kenya Village

By Jesse Masai
A robust missionary effort has emerged from an Anglican University in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya. Students from St. Paul's University slept in a classroom on their first visit to the rural village of Erupata in 2012, but since have developed a mission station with a church and an elementary school.
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A School's Six-Week Sojourn for Singing

By Neva Rae Fox
Coronavirus shutdowns have sidelined choirs around the world, but St. Thomas Choir School in New York City found a way to sing together safely, if only for part of the summer.
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'We Don't Need to Be There Nearly as Often'

By Mark Michael
After the pandemic eventually passes, churches will have an opportunity to restructure their use of time and space. Working and worshiping from home will continue, and for some people, the chaos of these days may be a time of breaking yokes that will never be forged again.
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Abortion, Faith,
And Clarity

By Douglas LeBlanc
Attitudes about abortion vary widely among Christians. The election season presents Christians with a need to map those attitudes onto political parties and candidates, and to act with clarity and compassion when arbitrating conflicts.
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Five Tips on Voting Like a Nonbeliever

By Sam Keyes
The world is only meaningful, after all, if we make it so. Elections are the best way to make life meaningful, to make sure that the world is good and not evil, to make sure that our lives actually have dignity and aren’t just a waste of time.
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That We All
May Be One

By Brandt L. Montgomery
"Will what has happened to Bishop Love eventually happen to me? I pray not. I pray that my progressive brothers and sisters will allow me to flourish as I commit myself to always acknowledging and respecting their dignity."
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