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Asst. Bishop Planned as Clark Recovers

By Kirk Petersen
The Diocese of Chicago’s bishop-elect, Paul Clark, has made “remarkable” progress in recovering from a cerebral bleed, but an assistant bishop will be hired, as her consecration is indefinitely postponed.
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Australian Primate Attacks GAFCON Plan

By Mark Michael
Geoffrey Smith argues in a letter to Australia’s bishops that GAFCON Australia’s plan to create a non-geographic diocese for disaffected conservative parishes is divisive and unnecessary, the church “being undermined from within.”
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Pakistani Bp. Seeks to End Forced Marriages

By Mark Michael
Though his petition calling for legal protections was rejected by Pakistan’s Supreme Court, Azad Marshall, the Church of Pakistan’s new moderator, continues the fight against escalating rates of forced conversion to Islam and marriage of Christian girls.
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Australia’s Good Book

Review by Robyn Douglass
A survey of the Bible’s role in Australian cultural history points out how it shaped the country’s social welfare system, while complicating relations between the country’s white and Aboriginal populations. 
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ACNA’s Scandals and Mine

By Steve Schlossburg
Taking delight in hypocrisy exposed in others leads to “a sudden, disabling stroke of self-awareness:” my own rank hypocrisy and vulnerability to temptation. 

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What Roy Gets About Worship

By Mark Michael
A 95-year-old parishioner who says that the Sunday Eucharist is the highlight of his week understands something crucial about discipleship missed entirely by some of the most vocal proponents of “hybrid worship.”

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Negative Capability: A Pastoral Virtue

By John Bauerschmidt
“To the extent that we ourselves are able to disappear, and Jesus emerge, we will have fulfilled our ministries.” 

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