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A Guide Through the Thicket
Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character, and Grace by daniel a. westberg ivp academic, 281 pages, $25.00 For some time now, First Things has sought to bring...
Bishop Jefferts Schori’s Two Sermons: Curacao and Charleston
What happens in Cura ç ao doesn’t stay in Cura ç ao, at least if one is Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. Last month, Katharine Jefferts Schori preached...
Unconservative Evangelicals
From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism by D. G. Hart ?Eerdmans, 252 pages, $25 The title of historian D. G. Hart’s new...
Anglicans, the Ordinariate, and the Unopened Gift
It is hard to remember now, but it is true: for the better part of the last hundred years, Anglicans were at the forefront of the ecumenical movement for...
Rowan Williams and the Anglican Future
Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, has issued his much-awaited response to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church: “ Communion, Covenant, and our Anglican Future .” Although it’s not...
Brave New Church
The seventy-sixth General Convention of the Episcopal Church made headlines last week for moving forward on same-sex blessings and officially opening its doors for partnered homosexuals to serve as...
The General Convention of Tomorrow
The 76th General Convention of the Episcopal Church is well underway now in Anaheim, California, and has been for about a week. Some observers have seen fit to note...
The Anglicans in Egypt: A Deeper Communion
“Are we a global church, or are we a federation of local bodies?” At the close of last week’s meeting of the Anglican primates in Egypt, the Archbishop of...
Rowan’s Rule
Rowan Williams is without doubt one of the most significant and learned theologians in the English-speaking world. Unfortunately, during his tenure at Canterbury, it has at times seemed that...
Anglican, or Episcopalian?
“Are you Anglican, or Episcopalian?” As an Episcopalian interloper studying at a Methodist seminary, I get the question a lot from my puzzled friends. Each time I’m asked, part...
What Lambeth Wrought
As the Anglican bishop Stephen Neill put it fifty years ago, “The first and burning question is naturally whether the Anglican communion in anything like its present form can...
Reading Lambeth
It’s over, but it’s far from done. The 2008 Lambeth Conference wrapped up this past Sunday, and all the purple-shirted Anglican bishops went back home to the everyday work...
Following Lambeth
Bloggers and reporters innumerable are churning out reports and commentary on the ongoing Lambeth Conference, and I’ve been dutifully reading as much of it as I can stand. My...
The Anglicans at Lambeth: What’s at Stake
Nearly six hundred purple-shirted Anglican bishops will gather this week in England for the Lambeth Conference , the decennial meeting of all the bishops in the global Anglican Communion....
The Anglicans at GAFCON: What Happened in Jerusalem
Even before it began, the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON, as its organizers called it) was dismissed as a failed attempt at schism¯and hailed as a triumphant new beginning¯for...
