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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 Theologian.” MacDougall believes that the decline of ... 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...

Way Back Wednesday: Parish Transitions, Dedicatory Plaques and the Communion of Saints

By Eugene R. Schlesinger The first time I set foot inside my parish was to clean it. Over the course of the pandemic, my family and I went through any number of configurations for managing our liturgical ... Read More...

Come Labor On: Restructuring for Healthy Ecologies of Faith

By Mark Clavier Come, labor on. Who dares stand idle on the harvest plain while all around us waves the golden grain? And to each servant does the Master say, "Go work today." In my first two essays in this series on revitalizing ministry in Wales, I arg... Read More...

Restoring the Ecology of Faith

This is the second in a series on Revitalizing Ministry in Wales. By Mark Clavier We plough the fields and scatter The good seed on the land, But it is fed and watered By God's almighty hand. – An old ... Read More...

Let the Marble Weep

The first in a series on Revitalizing Ministry in Wales (Part Two is here). By Mark Clavier Hither sometimes Sin steals, and stains The marble's neat and curious veins: But all is cleansed when the marbl... Read More...

The hope and joy of peace

Becoming Leaders of Profound Change

To Set Our Sights on the Cross

Singing in Prison

A guide to the Covenant

Becoming Leaders of Profound Change

To Set Our Sights on the Cross

Singing in Prison

Remembering My Spiritual Brother, Bishop Frank Griswold

Nourishing Memories, Chapter 7: Cambridge and Yugoslavia

Branding Jesus

Are we done with the '79 prayer book?

To Set Our Sights on the Cross

A New Grace for Meals

The Body of Christ in the Tomb of Christ

Jesus, Baptism, and the Reversal of Death in Mark 4:1–5:43

Lent Is Preparation for the Great Vigil of Easter

Sunday Liturgy Without A Priest: Part Two (Morning Prayer and Antecommunion)

Ascension song

Branding Jesus

On Shared Humanity and Diverse Religion: Notes from Egypt

Meditation on an Image

Think Again, Sunshine: Conquest and Jordan Peterson

Ash and Johnny Cash

To Care and Not To Care

Facing Episcopal Church Decline After COVID

Is Anglicanism Growing or Dying? New Data

Alternative Facts on Church Growth

Whither the Church of England?

Way Back Wednesday: Parish Transitions, Dedicatory Plaques and the Communion of Saints

Come Labor On: Restructuring for Healthy Ecologies of Faith

Restoring the Ecology of Faith

Let the Marble Weep

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