Analysis – Covenant

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 just been released and, together with other research, it enables us to begin to... Read More...

Is Anglicanism Growing or Dying? New Data

By David Goodhew The membership of the Episcopal Church (TEC) has halved since 1970. During the same period, the Anglican Communion’s combined membership has doubled. It is now heading toward 100 million. Th... Read More...

Alternative Facts on Church Growth

A Response to Scott MacDougall By Benjamin M. Guyer On November 30, House of Deputies theologian Scott MacDougall published “The Church Is Not Dying, It Is Changing: A Message from the House of Deputies The... Read More...

Whither the Church of England?

By David Goodhew Whither the Church of England (C of E)? The numbers make bleak reading, for the most part. Take the diocese of Bath and Wells. In 1990, around 34,000 people attended its churches on Sundays.... Read More...

The Neoliberal Age Part II: The Decomposition of Anglicanism

This is an essay in two parts. Part one may be found here. By Paul (H. Matthew Lee) “Anglican ministers and bishops are proud and rich, live in wealthy parishes and dioceses and wax fat with an entirely un... Read More...

The Neoliberal Age: The Decomposition of the Self

By Paul (H. Matthew Lee) “In combating racism we do not make progress if we combat the people themselves. We have to combat the causes of racism. If a bandit comes to my house and I have a gun, I cannot shoot ... Read More...

Missionary Anglicanism Redux: A New Paradigm?

By Jeremy Bonner The ACNA is on the move, downwards as well as upwards. In an earlier article for Covenant I looked at the overall picture. Now I want to dig deeper into the latest figures, which provide man... Read More...

Constitutional Confusion

By Drew N. Keane Recent Title IV proceedings against the Bishop of Albany, the Rt. Rev. William Love, expose a number of ambiguities in the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church that, if unaddresse... Read More...

The hope and joy of peace

There Is Virtue in Waiting

The Next Two Theologies

Bishops in Council: Cranmer on Episcopal Decision-Making

A guide to the Covenant

There Is Virtue in Waiting

The Next Two Theologies

Bishops in Council: Cranmer on Episcopal Decision-Making

Dreaming Dreams, Seeing Visions: The Theology of Field of Dreams

The Episcopate in Anglican History: Received in Humility Yet Exercised with Responsibility

Dreading Pentecost

Are we done with the '79 prayer book?

Mindfulness As Heartfulness in Alcuin of York’s Love of Reading

God Bless America, God Save the King

Charles III and Kenotic Monarchy

Of Canons and Hymns

Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI

Crowns and Vows

Ascension song