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Rowe Urges Strategy-Driven Executive Council

“You can only have a helpful evaluative structure if you have a strategy to evaluate,” Rowe added. “Otherwise you end up with what each individual board member thinks is important, a recipe for chaos.”  He also noted that “the staff reports to the CEO, not the board. This has been clear in our canons, but not in practice.”

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Daily Devotional • November 3 A Reading from Matthew 18:21-35 21...

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Generative Love (Pent. 24, Year B)

In loving another person, love is generative. Love-making is life-making, for loving is a way toward love itself, life itself, the hidden ground of love.

GAFCON Blasts Welby for Endorsement of Gay Sex

The GAFCON Primates’ Council rebuked Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby for stating in a recent podcast interview that he believes that sex within any “committed relationship, straight or gay,” is moral, which they call an “explicit repudiation of Christian doctrine.”

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ACNA Installs New Archbishop

In a service marked by pageantry, prayers and celebratory bagpipes, the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) received its new Archbishop and Primate this week.

11/24 Issue Online

The November 24 Advent issue of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. In our cover story, Lauren Anderson-Cripps profiles developments at Watts & Co., the famed...

Mission Center Builds Up African Ministries in Boston Area

“It seemed to me that part of the way that we get past the North-South divide in global Anglicanism is to make sure that when African Anglicans are present in our own diocese that they feel fully welcomed and empowered to be at the table as part of us," said former Massachusetts bishop Alan Gates.

Singapore Mission Consultation Celebrates Anglican Church Planting

Six mission deaneries are overseen by the Diocese of Singapore including Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Nepal. A seventh deanery in Timor-Leste is set to be admitted to the diocese in November.

Why the Church Says No to Polyamory

This is the root of the difficulty of non-monogamy in general and polyamory in particular: mimetic rivalry.

Learning from Global Leaders with Mary Ho

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Bartholomew’s Care for All the Churches

Bartholomew writes in a consistent register that drives home his care for the well-being of all parts of the global community in a common family.

Christian Nationalism in the Mirror

What makes Baptizing America a distinctive contribution is the authors’ assertion that Christian nationalism is not limited to white evangelicals and Pentecostals, or to recent decades.

Baptism and Public Life

Michael Hopkins provides an extended practical commentary on the rite of Holy Baptism in the Book of Common Prayer.

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