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Investing for Impact

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
The Episcopal Church, and other Episcopal organizations with money to invest, are pursuing new strategies to hold companies to account for public safety and environmental crises. The Church recently bought stock in three gun manufacturers, for the purpose of sponsoring shareholder resolutions.
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Should Churches Pursue Digital Giving?

By Kirk Petersen
It may sound like a good idea to enable people to donate over their smartphones, or for parishioners to tithe through direct transfer. But digital giving will cost money and create work, and churches need to decide if it's worth it.
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Financial Misdeeds Alleged in Central NY

By Kirk Petersen
The longtime rector of a small historic church has been placed on administrative leave, and the results of a forensic audit have been turned over to the local police.
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Conference Considers Prayer Book Revision

By Calvin Lane
Theologians and church leaders devoted a day to thoughtful consideration of updating the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. The conference grew out of an extensive but inconclusive debate at the 2018 General Convention.
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The Spiritual History of Oil

Review by Dane Neufeld
Anointed With Oil explores the deep connections between oil and faith in the making of modern America. It's a timely book as society confronts fears of climate change.
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Why Stay in the Episcopal Church?

By Leander Harding
The rationale for leaving TEC cannot be that the church is broken. It is broken everywhere and there is no unbroken church to which to flee.
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Richard Hooker and the Episcopacy

By Eric Tuttle
Conventional wisdom has it that the English theologian believed bishops were instituted by divine law, and thus it would be unthinkable to be in full communion with churches of different polity. But it may be possible to reconcile Hooker with ecumenism.

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