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Feb
22

Covenant videos on YouTube

Members of the Anglican Communion with Internet access can now watch three videos produced by the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order (IASCUFO) in which its members speak about the Covenant.
Feb
18

Bunch of grapes or bag of marbles?

My question is: Who knows the Anglican Communion best and has the most up to date information concerning the consequences of the failure of the Covenant? Is it Jonathan Clatworthy, who has prepared the No Anglican Covenant Coalition paper, or the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is strongly proposing the Covenant?
Feb
17

+Robinson and an Elizabethan Apocryphon

Queen Elizabeth I is reported to have stated that she did not wish to "make windows into men's souls." It is not uncommon for this piece of folk wisdom to be found in films such as Shekhar Shapur's 1998 Elizabeth.
Feb
10

Stability and community

We published a fine review of Wilson-Hartgrove’s latest book in The Living Church (written by Jon Adamson of Northern Indiana, a man of stability). Here is — I presume — an excerpt from it, as published by Christianity Today. The trouble for most of us isn’t so much that we cannot afford stability as it is that we don’t value it. We idealize and aspire to a life on the...
Feb
9

Abp. Rowan’s intervention

May I say, as an American Episcopalian, that various bumps in the road notwithstanding, it's refreshing that the proposal finally has been placed in the hands of bishops before a final vote.
Feb
9

Clergy loan forgiveness?

Last week, the Department of Education released guidelines outlining exactly who qualifies for loan forgiveness. It turns out that employees whose work is related to "religious instruction, worship services, or any form of proselytizing" don't fit the bill.
Feb
6

Fleming Rutledge on the KJV

There have been a great many articles about the King James Version of the Bible during and since last year's 400th anniversary, but to my mind none more eloquent and convincing that the one by Robert Pogue Harrison, Professor of Italian (!) Literature at Stanford, which appears in the Feb. 9 issue of The New York Review of Books.

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