The Sept. 10 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. This edition features an extensive cover story by news editor Matthew Townsend on the life and struggles of Anglicans in Uruguay:
In a quiet corner of South America, far removed from the splendor of Machu Picchu or the excitement of Rio de Janeiro, you can find a small, committed group of Anglicans who deeply love their church. The Anglicans of Uruguay, the small coastal country nestled between Argentina and Brazil, also fear for the future of their church: numbers have continued to decline, the parishioners are growing older, and the outside culture has not expressed taste for church.
While the worldwide nature of the Anglican Communion is often a subject of discussion, Uruguay’s Anglicans may not come to mind frequently to northern Episcopalians and Anglicans. The Iglesia Anglicana del Uruguay made headlines in 2010, when, based on its desire to ordain women to the priesthood, it voted to leave the Province of the Southern Cone and join Brazil. The rest of the province said no. Trouble also erupted after the election of Canadian-born Michael Pollesel as bishop in early 2012; the province’s House of Bishops refused to ratify the election. In 2012, the Anglican Consultative Council declined Uruguay’s request to leave the Southern Cone. However, with the ratification of Pollesel’s election in 2013, and a local option for women’s ordination granted in 2015, Uruguay’s Anglicans have slipped away from the headlines and likely toward the back of Northern minds.
News
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Features
- Uncertainty in Uruguay | By Matthew Townsend
- On this Rock | By Kirk Petersen
- All Return to Dust | By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
- Three Lessons for Foreign Missions | By Jordan Hylden
- Bad Karma Died on the Cross | By Steven R. Ford
- Twenty Minutes with Jason Ballard
Sustainable Housing for the Rest of Us | By Jordan Hylden
Books
- Being the Body of Christ in the Age of Management
Review by Thomas E. Breidenthal - Missa Est! | Review by Daniel H. Martins
- Harvesting Abundance | Review by Nurya Love Parish
- Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century | Review by Richard J. Mammana
Other Departments
- People & Places
- Sunday’s Readings
