TLC Weekly: Another Round of S. Carolina Property Litigation; Green Light for Same Sex Blessings in Australia; Welcome to Pre-Advent

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S. Carolina Court To Revisit Property Case

By Kirk Petersen
The Supreme Court of South Carolina will review the outcome of a property dispute pitting the Episcopal Church against congregations and a diocese that left the church in 2012. The state Supreme Court ruled on the case in 2017, but a lower court later ordered a different outcome.
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Australian Church OKs Same-Sex Blessings

By Mark Michael
The highest legal authority in the Anglican Church of Australia issued a narrow ruling that permits the blessing of civil same-sex marriages, but does not authorize the performance of Anglican same-sex marriages.
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New Primates for Japan and Korea

By Mark Michael
The small Anglican Church provinces in Japan and Korea both elected new primates in recent weeks. Luke Ken-ichi Muto was elected as the 19th primate and archbishop of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the church in Japan. Peter Kyongho Lee, Bishop of Seoul, was elected archbishop and primate of the Anglican Province of Korea.
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Podcast: Christian Mental Health & Hope

In a time of fear and pandemic, how do we face the reality of our own mental health and others' while continuing to share the hope of Jesus? Join us in this honest and powerful conversation with the Rev. Rob Merchant.
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Welcome
to Pre-Advent

By Stewart Clem
The season of pre-Advent is implicitly recognized in the Revised Common Lectionary, where the readings for last three Sundays of the church year (Propers 27, 28, and 29) are thematically organized around the second coming of Christ.
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Books:
Forgotten Friends

By Ephraim Radner

Books are not people; but they are, nonetheless, a kind of person. I am a “bibliophile,” not because I am technologically reactionary or graphically reductive, but because I love the world of human beings in which I am blessed to have a place.

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Anglican(ish) Novels

By Victor Lee Austin
One novel starts charmingly with an Oxford woman coming home from High Mass on a camel, but the story goes downhill from there. Joan Didion's 1977 novel A Book of Common Prayer is a masterful tale of the travels of a dying woman, but it has nothing to do with the BCP, and God is absent.
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