Training Youth to Wage Peace in the Holy Lands November 18, 2020 Features, Highlight Between the summer programs and school-year classes, “we’ve had direct impact on thousands of young people,” the Rev. Canon Nicholas Porter said. “We have trained, empowered and energized individuals who will be agents of change in their society.”
New: 11/29 TLC Online November 17, 2020 Highlight, News The November 29 Advent Issue of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. The cover story by G. Jeffrey MacDonald examines how the pandemic is causing increased stress levels for clerg... Read more...
S. Carolina Court to See Case It Thought It Settled November 16, 2020 Highlight, News The State Supreme Court may have thought it settled the matter in 2017, but a lower court thought otherwise.
New Primates for Japan and Korea November 13, 2020 Highlight, News The small but venerable Anglican churches of Japan and Korea have both elected new primates from among their diocesan bishops in recent weeks.
Tribunal Authorizes Same-Sex Blessings in Australia November 13, 2020 Highlight, News The Anglican Church of Australia's highest legal authority has ruled on narrow legal grounds that a liturgy for same sex blessings approved in 2019 by the Diocese of Wangaratta is valid, and that the Diocese of Newcastle may revise its clergy discipline rules to prohibit disciplinary action against priests who enter into same sex marriages.
Old Masters and Black Bodies November 12, 2020 Features, Highlight Using the tools of the old masters – grand canvases and oil paint, and fluently speaking their iconographic language – Ballon has moved Black bodies from the margins of the canvas to the forefront, portraying them as Biblical characters.
Kingdom Logic and the Ethics of Almsgiving November 11, 2020 Highlight, News By Stewart Clem “He’s just going to spend it on drugs.” “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” “She probably isn’t even homeless.” “Why can’t ... Read more...
New C of E Resource for Discernment on Sexuality November 11, 2020 Highlight, News A 468-page book and associated teaching materials are designed to help the Church of England begin “a new process of discernment and decision-making on questions of identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage” over the next two years.
Navajo ‘Evangelism’ No Longer Means ‘Assimilation’ November 6, 2020 Highlight, News The Episcopal Church in Navajoland incorporates Navajo traditions into a Christian context. The Navajo Nation has been hit hard by the coronavirus.
English Clergy Protest 4-Week Worship Ban November 5, 2020 Highlight, News “We strongly disagree with the decision to suspend public worship during this time,” the faith leaders wrote in a November 3 letter. “We have had reaffirmed, through the bitter experience of the last six months, the critical role that faith plays in moments of tremendous crisis, and we believe public worship is essential.”
