The June 9 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers.
News
Vol. 246, No. 12, Posted
The June 9 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers.
Deacons Choose Director
The Rev. Lorraine Marie Mills-Curran to lead the Association for Episcopal Deacons beginning in June.
Lessons from Willow Creek
Forward Movement’s RenewalWorks is based on research that began at Willow Creek Community Church.
Iona’s Vision Expands
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, TLC Correspondent
The Texas-based Iona School for Ministry attracts students from as far away as Nebraska and Wyoming.
General Convention Reboots
When the 78th General Convention meets in 2015 it will welcome laptops, tablets, and smartphones in both houses.
Features
Acclaimed Worship Spaces
Compiled by Lauren Anderson
A survey of five award-winning architectural designs.
Gerre Hancock’s Improvised Fun
“It was like a great trailer truck, a lorry juggernaut, backing into a garage from a New York side street.”
Editorial: Getting to Yes
The proposed Anglican Communion Covenant has taken a battering lately in a handful of diocesan synods of the Church of England, thanks in part to an influential, if incoherent, campaign by the No Anglican Covenant Coalition.
Walking Together in Haiti
By Mark Harris
Haiti is more than Port-au-Prince, more than the earthquake of 2010, more than “the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere,” more than a place that needs our help.
A Tale of Two Grandmothers
By Boyd Wright
If God granted the prayers of one side and denied the others, did he consider the North right and moral and the South wrong and evil? Abraham Lincoln, for one, refused to believe this.
Essays & Reviews
St. Paul Speaks!
“When one has faced down a shouting mob of enraged goddess worshipers, enduring one voluble fortune-teller is fairly simple.”
Beyond Provincialism
By Colin Podmore
In the Anglican Communion, what’s true for dioceses is true for provinces.
Don’t Cheat the Prophet
By William G. Witt. There is no reason to presume that South Carolina’s declaring itself an extra-provincial diocese is more than an ad hoc solution.
Why Provinces Matter
By Jesse Zink. The pernicious hermeneutic of self-justification remains a constant temptation.
A Medieval Pottersville
By Daniel W. Muth. The HBO series depicts a dark, dank, brutal, depressing but nevertheless engrossing world.

Trinity Sunday
Prov. 8:1-4,22-31 • Ps. 8 or Canticle 2 or 13 • Rom. 5:1-5 • John 16:12-15










