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Diocese Approves Slavery Reparations

By Kirk Petersen
The Episcopal Diocese of New York has earmarked $1.1 million from its endowment to atone for what the bishop described as the diocese’s “significant, and genuinely evil, part in American slavery.”
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Bishop Roundup

Bishop elections and other transitions have occurred in the dioceses of South Dakota, Iowa, Lexington, Missouri, and Maryland.
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Trinity Seminary Buys Church for Expansion

By Kirk Petersen
Trinity School for Ministry has purchased a large local church near its campus in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, giving the seminary more flexibility to host large events.
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Rest in Peace,
Rise in Glory

Celebrating the lives of priests with records of long service as a school chaplain, a social justice activist, and a scholar of traditional African religions.
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Well-Placed Charity

Review by Michael Tessman
In Shrewd Samaritan, Bruce Wydick charts a critical, historical perspective on the major cultural, geographic, and institutional causes of systemic poverty worldwide.
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Church Decline, Faithfulness and Hope

By Jenny Andison
Membership is declining in the Anglican Church of Canada, but "there are gifts hidden in the decline, if we have eyes to see them. As resources become scarcer, we are being pushed into local and national ecumenical collaboration and dialogue in a fresh way."
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On Baptism

By Mac Stewart
"Baptism is an apocalypse. It is not a quaint ceremony for welcoming newborns into the world with a fancy white dress. It is the act by which ... God rips us out of our congenital self-absorption and grips us with the unimaginable force of his everlasting mercy."
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