Episco-upgrades: Change clergy transitions
This is the fourth post in a series. Click here for the previous post or here for the next post. This is another structure- and polity-oriented post. Some bigger thought pieces are coming, probably...
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Episco-upgrades: Simplify our structures
This is the third post in a series. Click here for the previous post or here for the next post. In this series, some of the posts will take up major, theological/missiological questions and...
Episco-upgrades: Taking measure
This is the second post in a series. Click here for the previous post or here for the next post. The Episcopal Church appears to be in slow, steady decline. Our pews are not...
Holy @#$%! Time for a new reformation?
Walter Russell Mead says the first Reformation can be understood as clearing things away to make room for the Gospel. He also says it’s time for another reformation. This time, instead of relics, we...
A province is born
In the midst of Advent, while we prepare our hearts to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the universal church witnessed another birth today. Gathered in Illinois, conservative Anglicans formed a new province. For...
Of Christ the King and the Episcopal Church
This morning, as I arrived at church, I updated my Facebook status to say this: “Scott wonders how many if his Episcopal Church colleagues will celebrate ‘Christ the King’ today in error.” I was...
Diocesan Convention in Rhode Island
It’s late, and I don’t…um…exactly know what I’m going to say in tomorrow’s sermon, so I won’t say much here beyond a quick narrative. However, I did promise a Convention report, so here goes....
Stay tuned for news of Diocesan Convention
Your intrepid 7WD news team will be on site tomorrow for the 218th Convention of the Diocese of Rhode Island. There are five resolutions, though none of them is likely to be newsworthy to...
An update on the Rev’d Ann Holmes Redding
Bishop Geralyn Wolf has sent a letter to the House of Bishops with an update on the Rev’d Ann Holmes Redding. As you may recall, Mother Redding is an ordained priest (canonically resident in...
The palette of Christianity in America
This map has been around a while, but it just showed up over at Strange Maps. I suppose, on the one hand, it doesn’t really show us anything new. But it also provides us...
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