A Good Shepherd
This good and true shepherd’s interest in and care for all of us who became his “sons” was surely a sign to us that the Good Shepherd had plans for us and was counting on us to be His disciples.
Questioning Lambeth 2020
The organizers of Lambeth 2020 have many difficult matters to tackle. But the gross disparity between the number of worshipers in the different dioceses is a question that needs to be faced. As things stand, the net result is continuing to privilege the voices of small numbers of white Westerners while side-lining swaths of the most missional and poorest Christians in the Anglican Communion.
Episcopal Authority in a Changing Church
No matter how General Synod turns out, the question that all Anglicans face is how to move forward in their own vocations as Christians, especially if they believe their bishops to be undermining the words of Jesus.
Bishop Straight Tongue
Henry Benjamin Whipple – first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, evangelist and defender of the Minnesota Indians, and the man who bent the ear of America’s greatest president to stop a mass execution.
DEPO and the Personal Ministry of Bishops
Why might a parish conclude that it needs pastoral oversight from a bishop who concurs with its understanding of the gospel?
Worth Talking About: The Episcopate and Women
The worst thing we could do is say we should not be talking about these slates.
Against Walkabouts
We need a new term in our bishop searches, one without the culturally fraught 19th-century language exchange of Blackbirding as its only background.
A Field Guide to Bishop-Spotting
Eight observations for the benefit of electors and candidates trying to discern their possible vocation to the episcopate.