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Pray for the City

How does a vision of a thick civic culture relate first to the policy of allowing for religious tax exemption, and then to the question of whether churches ought to allow their clergy to sign marriage licenses?

Perhaps The Time Has Come

Should we cut the final Constantinian tether by which the priest serves simultaneously as civil agent?

Marriage Rites: Extend, Adopt, or Punt

The Task Force on the Study of Marriage ponders resolutions affecting the prayer book or supplemental texts.

New Zealand’s “way forward” on same-sex marriage: An evaluation

This report marks a significant departure from traditional Anglican and broader Christian teaching that marriage is a gift of God in creation.

Marriage Protests Flip

“The new definition of marriage no longer coincides with the Christian understanding of marriage.”

Marriage Debate Spawns Panel

The presiding officers of General Convention have announced their decision to appoint a legislative committee on marriage.

San Diego: Marrying Time

Clergy freed to “remove any distinction between same-sex marriage and other marriages.”

‘What I Heard Was a Marriage’

An Indaba-style gathering draws from one side of the aisle.

Bishops Join Brief

Thirteen bishops of the Episcopal Church support a lesbian couple’s bid to be married.

Why Ignore Wisdom?

Theologian Andrew Goddard evaluates the Church of England’s Men and Women in Marriage.

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