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The Archbishop of Nigeria has issued a statement saying ACNA is following the path of The Episcopal Church in welcoming LGBTQ persons. Adding to the significance of the dispute, the Archbishop of ACNA, Foley Beach, is also the chairman of Gafcon. ACNA, the Anglican Church in North American, is the affiliation of churches that broke away from the Anglican Church of Canada and The Episcopal Church and are therefore not members of the Anglican Communion. Gafcon, the Global Anglican Fellowship Conf...

to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? –Isaiah 58:6 Last year at this time, people in the United States were not fully aware of COVID-19’s existence, let alone what it would do to our nation and the world within the coming months. We have now been living in pandemic mode for eleven months and our lives have changed in ways we could have never predicted. I hear the stories of weariness and feel it from every sid...

January 9, 2021 3:12 am The transcript of the closing prayer offered at the momentous session of the United States Senate on January 6-7, 2020, by Chaplain of the United States Senate Barry Black appears below. Black is a Seventh-day Adventist minister. The thoughts and opinions expressed are his.—Editors Adventist Review. “Lord of our lives and sovereign of our beloved nation, we deplore the desecration of the United States Capitol building, the shedding of innocent blood, the lo...

Marc Nunez is no longer employed at the Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco, according to the school’s headmaster, Burns Jones, who forwarded this newspaper a statement he sent to parents when school officials became aware of the investigation into Nunez. … The criminal complaint (PDF) against Nunez, filed earlier this month, details times that Nunez allegedly received videos depicting teen boys being sexually molested. It also accuses Nunez of participating in sexualized conversatio...

The Episcopal Café seeks to be an independent voice, reporting and reflecting on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican tradition.  The Café is not a platform of advocacy, but it does aim to tell the story of the church from the perspective of Progressive Christianity.  Our collective sympathy, as the Café, lies with the project of widening the circle of inclusion within the church and empowering all the baptized for the role to which they have been called as followers of Christ. The opinio...

The Rt. Rev. Sean Rowe, bishop of the dioceses of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Western New York writes about the scapegoating of the Pennsylvania secretary of health, a transgender woman. Go Erie says Dr. Rachel Levine, M.D., “has been subject to an endless stream of mockery and abuse.” I thought about scapegoats Thursday when I saw news reports about a business owner in Waterford who had posted a sign along Route 19 disparaging Dr. Rachel Levine, the state’s secretary of health, who is ...