March 1, 2007 ‘There isn’t one Anglican church,’ says U.S. academic

Nine months ago, the Episcopal Church met in convention in a mild-mannered city, Columbus, Ohio. What transpired was anything but mild-mannered and the emotional temperature since has steadily risen, both within a vocal minority of Episcopal churches in the United States and several countries of the global Anglican Communion.

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January 1, 2007 The proposed Anglican covenant: some questions

One of the more significant items on the agenda of the General Synod in June (and likely on the agenda of the meeting of all Anglican primates next month in Tanzania) will be responding to the Windsor Report, and specifically to...

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May 1, 2006 Can you see what I see?

John’s church was in the midst of a visioning process. The enthusiastic members jokingly let slip that they had already chosen John’s vision for him, that he was to be the new Sunday School co-ordinator. After all, what ...

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January 1, 2006 Who's Anglican and who's not?

The Church of Nigeria's decision last September to amend its constitution by deleting all references to its communion "with the See of Canterbury and with all dioceses, provinces and regional churches which are in full...

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November 1, 2005 A Communion on the verge

Some significant events have taken place in the Anglican Communion during the past year. The primates have asked two member provinces to withdraw from the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC). The ACC has changed its...

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December 1, 2003 The enigma of Thomas Cranmer

Heroic defender of Reformed Protestantism or villainous betrayer of the Catholic Church? Disobedient schismatic or unifying symbol of resistance? Emblem of an immutable liturgy or one that changes with the times? ...

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November 1, 2003 ‘What price unity’ asks Irish primate

Here, reprinted courtesy of the Church of Ireland Gazette (www.gazette.ireland.anglican.org), is an excerpt of an essay by the Archbishop of Armagh and senior primate of the Anglican Communion, Robin Eames. It was...

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March 1, 2002 A bishop finds the episcopacy wanting

The following is the full text of an essay entitled The Episcopate which Bishop Michael Ingham wrote for the book All Who Minister, edited by Maylanne Maybee (Anglican Book Centre, $24.95). An adapted version appeared in the...

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February 1, 2001 Malaita: A difficult year ends with a ceasefire

Terry Brown is the Anglican bishop of Malaita and a former mission coordinator for Asia and the Pacific with General Synod. Malaita is one of several islands which make up the Solomon Islands. Based in Auki, the see city...

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June 1, 1999 Religious and cultural context of Balkans overlooked

OUR SECULARIZED Western society may have failed to appreciate the full significance of the religious and cultural context in the Balkans. The cultural fault-lines lie three ways. The first two fall between the...

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