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Jonas Allooloo, Inuk Bible Translator (1946-2026)

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1571+ words) Canon Jonas Allooloo, one of four Inuit Anglicans who embarked on the project of a lifetime'translating the entire Bible into Inuktitut'has died. He was 79. The Inuktitut Bible marked the first time in Canada that a translation was done by first-language…...

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Mind the Gaps in Liturgy Studies

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (233+ words) The Cambridge Companion to Christian Liturgy Edited by'Joris Geldhof Cambridge, 426 pages, $39 However, although many individual essays of the contributors are excellent, as a collection, this book fails on many levels. In the historical section, the early period is outlined by…...

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Is the Post-COVID Bounce Over? The Episcopal Church's Numbers

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (613+ words) As we move into 2026, where is the Episcopal Church? It showed a limited recovery after COVID, and new data (from 2024) has been released, allowing a sense of the church's post-COVID trajectory. The staff in the church's Research and Statistics Department…...

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Executive Council Selects Pittsburgh for GC 2030

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (704+ words) In a meeting on February 20 that lasted less than a full workday and was held over Zoom, the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church elected a new member and selected a potential site for the 2030 General Convention. The Joint Standing…...

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A Liturgical Theology of Preaching—Preaching the Scriptures

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (386+ words) This is the fourth essay is a special series by the Rev. Dr. Nathan Jennings, Professor of Liturgics at Seminary of the Southwest." There will be eight installments in this series presented in intervals through the winter of 2026." A "round…...

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The Long Struggle of Arnold Hollis Concludes

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (556+ words) Arnold Hollis of Sandys, Bermuda, died an archdeacon at 92, but it took him 17 years of persistent inquiries to be welcomed as a priest in the nation where he was born. For years he heard that he was not qualified'until after…...

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Fifty Years of Stained Glass

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1214+ words) It was 1975. The Most Rev. John Maury Allin was Presiding Bishop, the Episcopal Church had almost three million members, and on the same day in September that The Living Church published an editorial about breakaway churches, four women were ordained…...

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154 Bishops Call for End to ICE Raids

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (837+ words) A commonly cited text about the call to social justice, Micah 6:8 reads, "He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk…...

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Speaking in Public as if Everything is OK

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (356+ words) You watch the news obsessively, in an irrational hope that the next report will give some answers, some sense of stability, some understanding of the emerging new world. As you take it all in, you grasp at stories of heroism,…...

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A Liturgical Theology of Preaching—When is the Sermon?

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (278+ words) This is the second essay is a special series by the Rev. Dr. Nathan Jennings, Professor of Liturgics at Seminary of the Southwest." There will be eight installments in this series presented in intervals through the winter of 2026." A "round…...