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Archives: Mission Work Begins in Manila (1899)

This article was first published in the July 29, 1899, issue of The Living Church.

Church Camp, Ministry Conferences, & VBS 100 Years Ago

July 1924 brought the Diocese of Georgia’s first summer camp, a vocations conference for 200 boys in New Hampshire, and 47,000 children in New York City’s vacation Bible schools.

Archives: ‘The Way Forward Is Through Evangelism’ (1999)

“There’s a dramatic shift going on in the Anglican Church, with great growth in Africa and Asia, while in America the church continues to lose ground,” said speaker Michael Green at a 1999 evangelism conference.

Bishop Allin, Women’s Ordination, and the Zebra Book

Remembering the 1973 General Convention in Louisville

Archives: Munich Church Relieves Hyperinflation (1924)

The Episcopal Church of the Ascension was founded in 1903 to serve the city’s American population, and its mission house in the heart of the old city included a large library of English-language books.

Archives: Bishop Brown Presented for Trial [1924]

The Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937), also known as “Bad Bishop Brown,” would be tried for heresy by the House of Bishops, and eventually deposed and excommunicated in 1925, the only Episcopal bishop to ever be so condemned for heresy.

A Hymn for Queen Catherine

Ask Anglicans or Episcopalians how they, their church, and their tradition came to be, and the near-universal, reflexive answer will inevitably come back, “Because...

1923 Archives: Tobacco Gifts & the ‘War’ on Virgin Birth

The so-called truce in the Modernist war was rather a hollow mockery.

Archives: Consecration of St. George’s, Jerusalem (1898)

After a bloody pogrom in Damascus in 1840, the British foreign minister, Lord Palmerston, gained the Ottoman sultan’s support for a plan to encourage...

Archives: All Bishops Affirm the Virgin Birth (1923)

“It is irreconcilable with the vows voluntarily made at ordination for a minister of this Church to deny, or suggest doubt as to, the facts and truths declared in the Apostles’ Creed.”

Archives: The Unveiling of the Peace Cross (1898)

A 20-foot-tall monument, predating construction of Washington National Cathedral, still stands on the cathedral grounds.

United Nations Day (1948)

“This Sunday, October 24th, is to be observed throughout the world as United Nations Day. We hope that many of our own churches will give some measure of recognition to the United Nations on this occasion.”

Brotherhood Pilgrimage to Jamestown (1923)

From the September 29, 1923, issue of The Living Church

Archives: War — or Something Else (1923)

The rest of the world, at least, is war-sick. Perhaps in this country we did not suffer enough to make us realize that the prevention of war is the greatest issue that now confronts the world.

Archives: The Death of President Harding (1923)

God cannot be thought of as giving grace to an idea: and so we have been commending, and do now equally commend, Warren Gamaliel Harding, President of the United States, to the love and direction of our heavenly Father.

Archives: Summer Christianity (1898)

“Do not, in taking your allowable, and even necessary, summer pleasures, allow yourself to forget your duty to God.”

Archives: Jerusalem-Cathedral Damaged, Fr. Klein Safe (1948)

From the July 4, 1948, issue of The Living Church In a recent report to London, the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, the Rt. Rev. Weston...

Archive 1973: ‘Speak to Us, Mr. President!’

TLC's editor called on President Nixon to give an accounting of Watergate -- more than a year before Nixon's resignation

Two Histories of Race and Faith

The first webinar in Past Reckoning: Exploring the Racial History of the Moravian and Episcopal Churches drew more than 400 registrants on January 25....

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