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Christopher Wells

Christopher Wells, PhD is Director of Unity, Faith and Order for the Anglican Communion. He oversees the Communion’s ecumenical relations and serves as secretary of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO). From 2009 to 2022, Dr. Wells was executive director and publisher of the Living Church Foundation.

‘Less Anglican and More Catholic’: One Visibly United Fellowship

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Christopher Wells brings our series on the Nairobi-Cairo Proposal to a close, calling for opportunities of encounter by which strangers can again become friends.

The Effort of Faith and Order

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Based on a homily preached at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Dallas, on May 21, for installation of new canons. God gives the Church an inalienable unity...

The Word is a Wedding

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By Christopher Wells The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork. — Psalm 19:1 While preparing me for confirmation, my mentor at Yale...

Schools of Anglican Synodality

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The following essay is excerpted from a chapter in When Churches in Communion Disagree, ed. Robert Heaney, Christopher Wells, and Pierre Whalon (Living Church...

Taking Time to Attend

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By Christopher Wells But yet, O my God who made us, how can that honor I paid her be compared with her service to me?...

Roundtable: Why I Write for Covenant (Christopher Wells)

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By Christopher Wells Most of the time Covenant is not focused on technical matters of ecclesiology. Thank God, our business is not production of an...

The Marvel of St. Martin’s, Houston

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By Christopher Wells On Nov. 10, 1982, Vice President George H.W. Bush found himself in Red Square attending the state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev, General...

Out with the Old, In with the Old

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By Christopher Wells “To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often,” wrote John Henry Newman, with an inter-ecclesial bus...

Sursum corda

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This is the last of three reflections on hierarchy. Part one, Part two. By Christopher Wells Human beings are made for worship of God: at once,...

The Evangelical Edge

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 This is the second of three reflections on hierarchy. Part one is here. By Christopher Wells Digging deeper into the origins of hierarchy, one comes to...
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