The May 22 Retirement issue of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers.
In our cover story, Simon Cotton continues his tour of ancient UK church architecture, finding a 12th-century structure and yew trees from the time of Christ at Pennant Melangell, three miles up a one-lane road in Wales.
In News, Kirk Petersen describes the first trickle of COVID cases from a consequential Executive Council meeting. (It’s a story that has rapidly developed since the magazine went to press — bookmark our General Convention homepage to keep up with the latest, as a massive event gets restructured on the fly.) The council launched two major initiatives in support of Indigenous people, and Kirk has that story, too. Mark Michael reports on bishop and primate elections in Utah and Central America.
Jeremy Worthen traces Anglicanism’s ecumenical role in an excerpt from When Churches in Communion Disagree, forthcoming this Spring from Living Church Books.
From the South Pacific, Robyn Douglass describes Anglican relief efforts after a volcano eruption in Tonga, and examines the New Zealand church’s split over same-sex marriage as a possible foreshadowing of Australia’s General Synod, which meets this week.
Robert Price begs Boomer priests to resist the lure of retirement and stay in ministry just a little longer. “We need you.”
In Cultures, Stephen Platten reviews a Westminster Abbey Choir recording of “three outstanding contemporary composers for any music lover with a devotional heart”: Dove + Weir + Martin.
All this plus more news, book reviews, People & Places, and Sunday’s readings, from an independent voice serving the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion since 1878. Consider subscribing today.
NEWS
- COVID Cases Pose Questions for General Convention
By Kirk Petersen
FEATURES
- Visible Communion Between Churches
By Jeremy Worthen - Anglicans Bring Relief after Tongan Volcano
By Robyn Douglass - New Zealand Church Split
May Be a Preview for Australia | By Robyn Douglass - Oh Stay, Boomer | By Robert Price
- Chasing the Hare to Pennant Melangell
By Simon Cotton
CULTURES
- New Song from a Hallowed Shrine
Review by Stephen Platten
BOOKS
- Walking Each Other Home and The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Reviews by Christine Havens - WASPs | Review by W.L. Prehn
- Humbler Faith, Bigger God | Review by Leander Harding
- Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy
Review by D. Stephen Long - Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict | Review by J. Scott Jackson
OTHER DEPARTMENTS
- People & Places
- Sunday’s Readings
