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Sewanee Confronts
Its Racist History


By Kirk Petersen
Shouted racial epithets at a lacrosse game have brought unwelcome attention to Sewanee: The University of the South, as it repudiates and seeks to move past its beginnings as a champion of slavery and the Confederacy. 
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Polkinghorne, Priest and Scientist, Dies 

By Alister McGrath
John C. Polkinghorne was a physicist who helped discover the quark. He stepped down from a Cambridge professorship to become an English parish priest, and later served as president of Queens College. He passed away March 9 at the age of 90.
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Gloom & Zoom & 
Australian Blessings


By Robyn Douglass
The ocean surrounding Australia has kept away the worst of the pandemic, but risks remain high enough that the Anglican Church of Australia has postponed its triennial synod for a second time, to 2022. Priests are finding ways to minister in a virtual world.
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Nigeria: Hijab Conflict in Anglican Schools

By Mark Michael
Ten historically Christian schools in one of Nigeria's largest cities had to close temporarily in mid-February, in the face of violent protests over dress codes. The schools, two of them Anglican, refused to allow Muslim students to wear the hijab.
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A Future-Present Reality

Review by Brandt L. Montgomery
A two-part documentary on Black church music provides a glimpse of a “future-present” reality, with the promises of God fulfilled in Jesus in force in the here and now, as well as in fullness at the hour of our death.
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Podcast: Behind the
Scenes at TLC


The Living Church magazine has been published continuously since 1878, and is governed by the Living Church Foundation. In this podcast, editors and foundation members share their stories about TLC and its ministries.
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Leaving & Cleaving:
Purity and Power


By Amber D. Noel
Though I have a great deal of sympathy for the ACNA and other “break-off” groups, I wonder if it is appropriate for any large organization, or church, or powerful person, to preserve purity in the same way an individual might: by breaking off or pushing away from the problematic part.
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Leaving Ourselves Behind

By Nick Comiskey
Taking Luther’s insights seriously might mean responding to skepticism with declarations of promise. This may not silence every doubt, but it could help those discouraged by unbelief to “leave themselves behind” and attend to the Word of God as it addresses them in the life of the Church.
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The Way of Love: Go

By Jerusalem Greer
Part of practicing the spiritual discipline of Go is being willing to do hard things scared in order to both intimately know people who are different from us and to be intimately known by them ourselves. It is to choose to follow Jesus’ lead and learn to release control of the narrative,
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