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Toward Convention IV: the Covenant

Whatever we do with the Covenant at this convention, I don't think it's going away.

Spiritual geographic

We need to ask smaller dioceses present us with a problem to be solved or a parabolic challenge to be answered.

Toward Convention III: celebrating the saints

In the 1990s, the liturgical calendar began to become a political football.

12 theses on bishops’ ministry

The role of bishops now itself a part of the struggle for the Episcopal Church’s faithful mission.

A pioneer for Anglican unity

By Peter M. Doll. If the ardent spirits of youth brought Henry Caswall to America, a more mature Romanticism later channeled them into a hopeful vision of a worldwide communion of Anglican churches.

Sufficient and required?

By Mary Tanner. What is it that constitutes recognisable identity amidst the myriad particularities of time and space?

Toward Convention II: marriage

This is the second in a series of four posts on major issues facing the 77th General Convention of the Episcopal Church.

Toward Convention I: polity

Polity (or Structure, depending on one’s angle of approach, though the two cannot really be separated) is arguably the elephant in the room at this convention.

One use

By John C. Bauerschmidt. “All the whole realm shall have but one use”: with this phrase the preface of the first Book of Common Prayer marked the end of the old liturgical regime that had prevailed in England in the Middle Ages, with various liturgical “uses” prevailing in different dioceses, religious orders, and cathedral churches, and the establishment of one use throughout England, authorized by Parliament and enforced by the power of the Crown.

A measuring rod

The canon of Scripture contains “all things necessary for salvation,” but it does not contain all things necessary for running the Church. This latter task is fulfilled by canon law.

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