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Chicago Elects Its First
Black Female Bishop

By Kirk Petersen
The Diocese of Chicago made news in October when it announced the first-ever slate of bishop candidates who were all people of color. The electing convention chose the Rev. Canon Paula E. Clark as the XIII Bishop of Chicago. She currently is canon to the ordinary in Washington.
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Alternative Oversight
Eyed in Australia

By Robyn Douglass
GAFCON Australia has threatened to create a new diocese to provide alternative oversight for Anglicans who want to leave the national church. The warning comes in response to a ruling by the Church's Appellate Tribunal permitting the blessing of same-sex civil marriages.
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Bishop Roundup: Lee
Returns to Milwaukee

By Kirk Petersen
The Rt. Rev. Jeffrey Lee retires as Bishop of Chicago (see lead item above) at the end of 2020, but he already has a new gig lined up. Beginning April 1, he will work half-time as provisional bishop in the Diocese of Milwaukee, one of the dioceses he served as a rector before being elected bishop. Also: search updates in Nevada and Southwest Florida.
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Appreciating an Ancient Icon in Italy

By Dennis Raverty
The face of Christ in the sixth-century Madonna Hodegetria is badly damaged, but the obscurity of Christ’s face only adds to the sense of wonder and mystery for the contemporary viewer. It's as if the God-bearer were gesturing towards a transcendent being whose ultimate form is entirely beyond the powers of human representation itself.
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Gift Ideas From Friends of TLC

Lots of books, some edibles, and a kayak are among the gift ideas suggested by staff and friends of The Living Church, in this annual Christmas feature.
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The Caroline Divines
And COVID-19

By Christopher D. Jones
Can the Anglican tradition provide moral principles that shape a response to this crisis that moves beyond the current partisan stalemate?
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God is Now

By Chip Prehn
When you mostly despise the past and have given up patience with the present, which futurists tend to devalue into “the status quo,” you must find your sustaining ideology somewhere. The Future is what revolutionaries believe in. Since the present has much too much of the past in it, people must be persuaded that the present — a.k.a. reality — has little to offer.
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Divine Irreplaceability

By Ephraim Radner
Our cultural expectations tell us that economies can be re-routed, that tasks can be reconfigured, that infections can be treated, that viruses can be vaccinated against, that normality is always within our reach again. This, of course, is a hopeful attitude. But deep down, many of us also know something else: we will not get these years back; many plans lie in ruins; many valued goods, material and immaterial, are simply gone.
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