Breakups in Australia, Trouble in Florida, local churches still doing great things, and the world reimagined – it’s our weekly roundup of stories from across the church
In the Journal & Café
- Florida Standing Committee statement on the Court of Review’s decision on the special convention to elect a bishop
- General Seminary and Virginia Theological Seminary join forces
- Australian Anglicans officially split as new GAFCON-aligned church is launched
- Court of Review calls into question legitimacy of Florida bishop’s election
Episcopal Church
Washington Post story on Diocese of Virginia’s move to offer reparations for past racial injustice undertaken and supported by the church https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/08/14/va-episcopal-diocese-spend-10-million-reparations-how/
Episcopalians begin worshipping again in South Carolina churches long held by breakaway groups https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2022/08/15/episcopal-diocese-begins-worshipping-in-south-carolina-churches-relinquished-by-acna-diocese-after-court-ruling/
Parishes in the News
Oregon priest has long career in the theater and pulpit https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2022/08/12/dual-roles-oregon-priest-balances-love-of-acting-with-call-to-parish-ministry/
First clergyperson of color (as well as a former Baptist pastor) called to lead historic Ohio parish https://www.cantonrep.com/story/lifestyle/2022/08/13/rev-robin-woodberry-makes-history-at-at-st-pauls-episcopal-church/10165670002/
Lovely profile of small Mississippi mission church still going strong after 137 years https://www.vicksburgpost.com/2022/08/14/working-for-god-tradition-drives-effort-to-keep-st-marys-episcopal-church-going/
Anglican Communion
Canadian Anglicans seek to understand and respond to expanded legal suicide bill https://anglicanjournal.com/justice-and-the-new-assisted-death-maid-is-now-easier-to-get-should-anglicans-be-concerned/
Archbishop of Canterbury reflects on the just concluded Lambeth Conference https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/19-august/features/features/archbishop-of-canterbury-reflects-on-love-across-difference
Responses to launch of GAFCON sponsored schismatic denomination in Australia
- From the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/18/australian-anglican-church-states-it-declined-to-affirm-same-sex-marriage-as-conservatives-break-away
- From the Anglican Primate, The Most Rev Geoffrey Smith https://anglican.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Statement-from-the-Primate-re-Diocese-of-Southern-Cross.pdf
A bit in the weeds on Anglican politics, but a good look into who exactly is the newest anti-progressive faction, the Global South Fellowship of Anglicans https://viamedia.news/2022/08/15/the-global-south-fellowship-of-anglicans-power-and-numbers/
Other Interesting Items
From Britain, a questioning of apologies for historic wrongs https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/19-august/comment/opinion/the-sorry-that-makes-no-sense
Fantastic excerpt from a woman on a journey away from fundamentalism https://earthandaltarmag.com/posts/inward-apocalypse
What is a Christian response to surveillance capitalism? https://www.psephizo.com/life-ministry/what-is-a-christian-response-to-surveillance-capitalism/
Westminster Abbey art project; reimagining the globe https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/the-abbey-welcomes-the-world-reimagined-globes
image World Reimagined globes/Westminster Abbey
