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After COVID: The Deepening Decline of the Church of England

COVID was bad for the Church of England. And new data show just how bad. Overall, the church lost one in five of its...

Facing Episcopal Church Decline After COVID

By David Goodhew The Episcopal Church has been in decline for some years. So what is the impact of COVID? New data for 2021 has...

Casting the Net on the Other Side: Post-COVID Church Renewal

By Jonathan Turtle The Diocese of Toronto took its theme for synod this year from the Gospel According to St. John: “Cast the net” (21:6)....

God Speaks Amid the Mess

A Post-COVID Catechesis By Victor Lee Austin Cascade Books, pp. 88, $14 Review by James Stambaugh It may have been premature in the Year of our Lord 2022...

COVID Caution Kept Infections at 34

By Kirk Petersen By the time of the closing gavel, nearly three dozen people at the 80th General Convention in Baltimore had tested positive for...

Pax Covidica, or Losses and Gains of the Pandemic

The global pandemic accelerated processes of change in Christian life that had been set in motion over the past two decades by the widespread...

Science, Faith, and the Pandemic

By Charlie Clauss A current story line, hyped by many, is the stance of conservative Christians towards the COVID-19 pandemic. This has played out as opposition...

The Arte and Crafte of Dying Well

By David Ney There is ... a time to be born and a time to die. — Ecclesiastes 3:1 The last chapter of George Marsden’s award-winning...

More than Music

By Robert Adams In the days before the first pandemic Thanksgiving, New York City freelance violinist Heather Bixler’s spiritual disquiet boiled over. The city was...

Canonical Obedience

By Steve Rice Some time ago, a bishop told me that when the hurricane is coming, you don’t call a vestry meeting to vote on...

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