“We Don’t Need to Be There Nearly as Often” Mark Michael October 22, 2020 Commentary, Editorial, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Mark Michael News broke recently that the Diocese of Chicago plans to sell its 30,000-square-foot headquarters in the city’s central business district. The building has other tenants, but the diocesan dir... Read More...
Facing Episcopal Church Decline – the Latest Numbers The Rev. Dr. David Goodhew October 19, 2020 Church of England, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By David Goodhew The Episcopal Church has published new statistics from the annual parochial reports, covering 2019. They build on what we have hitherto learnt and give us a significant steer as to what is l... Read More...
New Millennium, New Church Richard Kew October 19, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Richard Kew It is thirty years since the late Bishop Roger White and I authored New Millennium, New Church, the first of several books in which we challenged the church to think seriously about what the future might look like, the opportunities it presen... Read More...
The “New Normal”? Observations for Church Leaders from the COVID-19 Lockdown Neal Michell October 15, 2020 Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Neal Michell COVID-19 shutdown feels like walking on a frozen pond with cracks all around us. Church leaders are so busy trying to keep their congregants together and adjust to the changes wrought by the ... Read More...
The Trials of Returning to Worship Guest Contributor October 2, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Shirley O’Shea It had been more than five months since I had entered a sanctuary when I returned to church. Before the coronavirus pandemic necessitated the suspension of worship services, I would drive 2... Read More...
The Show Goes On Guest Contributor September 30, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Music, The Episcopal Church By Jonathan Jameson I’ve spent a large portion of the last eighteen years of my life traveling from town to town and playing songs to groups of people gathered in dimly-lit clubs. Somewhere along the way I began to develop a practice of kneeling down on sta... Read More...
COVID, Children, and Catechesis Guest Contributor September 25, 2020 Anglican Church of Canada, Catechesis, Commentary, Ministry By Jenny Andison When I was a young girl, my father often urged me to heed Churchill’s famous advice: “Jenny, never waste a good crisis!” Churchill’s mantra has been running around in my head during this “ti... Read More...
The Loss of Ritual in Coronatide Fr. Matthew S.C. Olver September 1, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Tech, The Episcopal Church A version of this was originally presented August 20, 2020, as part of a webinar on the role of Liturgy and Music in Formation, co-sponsored by the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes (CEEP), the Anglican ... Read More...
