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Now Online: Vol. 246, No. 9

The latest edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. 

This edition’s contents:

News
A Communion Optimist for VTS

Features
You Are Here
By Jon Roberts

Your Parish and Global Mission
By Julian D. Linnell

Thank You to Our Contributors
The 2012 Living Church Associates

Review Essays

Pro Communione by Benjamin M. Guyer
Review by Colin Podmore

The Heartbeat of God and Gathering at God’s Table
by Katharine Jefferts Schori
Review by Jesse Zink

Books

Grace at the Garbage Dump by Jesse A. Zink
Review by John P. Bowen

Against the Tide and A Public Faith by Miroslav Volf
Review by Andrew Petiprin

Catholic Voices
Uganda’s Lessons of Inclusion
By Steven R. Ford

Other Departments
Cæli enarrant
Letters
Sunday’s Readings

Matt Townsend
Matt Townsend
Matthew Townsend is the former news editor of The Living Church and former editor of the Anglican Journal. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

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GAFCON Blasts Welby for Endorsement of Gay Sex

The GAFCON Primates’ Council rebuked Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby for stating in a recent podcast interview that he believes that sex within any “committed relationship, straight or gay,” is moral, which they call an “explicit repudiation of Christian doctrine.”

ACNA Installs New Archbishop

In a service marked by pageantry, prayers and celebratory bagpipes, the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) received its new Archbishop and Primate this week.

Rowe Urges Strategy-Driven Executive Council

“You can only have a helpful evaluative structure if you have a strategy to evaluate,” Rowe added. “Otherwise you end up with what each individual board member thinks is important, a recipe for chaos.”  He also noted that “the staff reports to the CEO, not the board. This has been clear in our canons, but not in practice.”

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