Anglican
Why Indigenous communities need a seat at the table on climate
By Ray Minniecon — June 17, 2022
(The Conversation) — An Anglican Aboriginal pastor who attended the COP26 climate conference shares his perspective on Indigenous knowledge in dealing with climate change.
‘A moral giant’: South Africans pay their respects to Tutu
By Andrew Meldrum — December 31, 2021
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The Anglican archbishop's plain pine casket is on view Friday in St. George's Anglican Cathedral in Cape Town.
African leaders hail Tutu, but many don’t follow his lead
By Farai Mutsaka — December 30, 2021
MUTARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Many leaders have remained silent about Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s support for issues they’re uncomfortable with.
Islamist militants fuel Christian persecution in Kenya, faith leaders say
By Fredrick Nzwili — February 8, 2021
(RNS) — Somalia's al-Shabaab militants are trying to export their tyrannical strain of Shariah law, attacking Christians and churches.
Sex scandals show why evangelicals need to recover the sacrament of confession
By Joseph D'Souza — November 14, 2019
(RNS) — Imagine a church where everyone, including the senior pastor, was required to have a person they confessed to. For one, it would help avoid some of the major crises in the failures of leadership.
Christian churches own up to the futility of converting the Jews
By A. James Rudin — September 27, 2019
(RNS) — Throughout history, church and political authorities have used horrendous physical, emotional and psychological pressures in fruitless conversion campaigns.
Episcopalians scramble to capitalize on royal wedding opportunity
By Mark A. Kellner — May 17, 2018
(RNS) — For the Episcopal Church, the occasion marks a moment of opportunity to welcome newcomers and show the world Episcopalians are not entirely marginalized for their progressive views on gay ordination and same-sex marriage.
Where are mainline Protestants on abortion?
By Jacob Lupfer — January 18, 2018
(RNS) — While abortion is often portrayed as a binary issue, with religious people against it and secular people for it, the truth is much more complicated.
It’s no longer Sunday best for the Church of England
By Catherine Pepinster — July 14, 2017
LONDON (RNS) — But will they convince young people it’s a 21st-century institution they want to join?
A new Anglican church in Abu Dhabi will be a symbol of tolerance
By Claude Hammond — April 14, 2017
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (RNS) The UAE's policy of religious tolerance certainly stands in contrast to nearby countries, such as Saudi Arabia, where the construction of non-Muslim houses of worship is discouraged.
First Church of England bishop comes out as gay
By Jerome Socolovsky — September 2, 2016
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Nicholas Chamberlain, the bishop of Grantham, has come out as the first Church of England bishop to openly acknowledge he is gay.
Anglican priest joins lawsuit demanding greater rights for Kenya’s gays
By Fredrick Nzwili — June 14, 2016
(RNS) It is not clear whether his job is at risk, but his actions have ignited the ire of bishops, who reiterate that the Anglican Church in Kenya does not condone homosexuality.
Kenya Anglicans elect new archbishop
By Fredrick Nzwili — May 20, 2016
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Bishop Jackson Nasoore Ole Sapit is a traditionalist who nonetheless steered clear of gay issues.
Don’t change Catholic teaching on marriage, says remarried Protestant (COMMENTARY)
By Jacob Lupfer — November 13, 2015
(RNS) The Church that Christ founded on Peter should avoid becoming a loose confederacy of warring regional ecclesial jurisdictions.
The Occasional Pilgrim: San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral
By Kimberly Winston — November 24, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) Grace Cathedral, begun in 1928, is now an epicenter of spirituality in the City by the Bay. Fifty years after its formal completion, the landmark cathedral attracts pilgrims from around the world.
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