The pressures of time led to a number of widely supported compromises: new liturgical canons that secured protections for conservatives alongside prayer book revisions desired by progressives, and a concession to the bishops’ insistence that the State of Israel is not an “apartheid” regime.
Members of the House of Deputies spent nearly two hours of floor discussion on June 26 seeking to alter moderating language inserted by the House of Bishops into two resolutions about the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
By Kristine Blaess
The incredible promise of Christianity is that salvation in all its fullness is coming to all people. Jesus the Messiah has come;...
In the darkest days of apartheid in the 1980s, Tutu said "I believe that one day my beloved South Africa will be the land of all the rainbow children of God."
Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, who played a key role in South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle and led the nation’s famed Truth and Reconciliation process, died of cancer December 26 in Cape Town, at 90
A Living Church editorial from fifty years ago this week advocates for a national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King as a time for "national re-dedication to the truth which the prophetic hero proclaimed."
You have worked long and diligently for this victory, and I hope it changes your lives for the better. I hope that it draws you closer to the heart of Christ and the fellowship of his church.
