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This is the first of two People & Places posts from the March 24 edition.
Appointments
The Rev. Dr. Timothy J. Allen is priest in charge of Trinity, Morgantown, W.Va.
The Rev. Dr. Jerry Askew is interim canon to the ordinary in the Diocese of East Tennessee.
The Rev. Karri Backer is vicar of St. George’s, Riverside, Calif.
The Rev. Dan Bell is affiliate campus minister of the Episcopal Community at Boston College.
The Rev. Jeremy C. Bradley is rector of St. Mark’s, Richmond, Texas.
The Rev. Dan Burner is interim rector of St. Barnabas on the Desert, Scottsdale, Ariz.
The Very Rev. Tom Call ..read more
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By Kirk Petersen
Paul-Gordon Chandler, who has been on administrative leave as Bishop of Wyoming since October 2023 because of an “alleged indiscretion,” has agreed to be deposed from ordained ministry, thereby ending a Title IV disciplinary case against him. “As of March 26, he is no [longer] serving as Bishop of Wyoming,” according to a statement from the Rev. Meg Nickles, president of the diocesan Standing Committee. Deposition means he also is no longer an Episcopal priest.
Chandler emphasized that the deposition accord is not an admission of guilt. “My decision to voluntarily leave ordain ..read more
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By Kirk Petersen
A Good Friday concert of sacred music, conceived during a time of relative calm, has taken on an urgent mission in the face of a horrific war.
At 3 p.m. (Eastern) on Good Friday, March 29, the Episcopal Church will livestream an hour-long video featuring hymns and anthems recorded at a Virginia church. It will also include a message of gratitude from Archbishop Hosam Naoum, primate of the Anglican province known as the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.
“Our hope is that people maybe can find a quiet place to sit and listen to it, because the way the music has ..read more
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Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus
By J. Christopher Edwards
Fortress Press, 237 pages, $28
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Review by Eugene R. Schlesinger
For centuries the Christian Church has labored under a sign of its own contradiction. Springing from a Jewish matrix and centered upon a Jewish savior, sent by the God of Israel, we have drunk deeply from anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic, supersessionist waters. The blood libel, which accuses the Jews qua Jews of Christ-killing deicide, has given rise to all sorts of horr ..read more
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By Mark Michael
Manhattan’s Saint Thomas Choir School, which has trained young boys in church music for more than a century, is in danger of closing because its costs have become unmanageable for its parent organization, Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. The church’s vestry announced on March 17 that it has set up a sustainability task force to examine various options for balancing its budget and exploring different educational models that might allow it to maintain its choir of men and boys.
“The Vestry is still committed to excellence in liturgy and music. However, for us to continue offerin ..read more
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Easter Day, Year B, March 31
Acts 10:34-43 or Isa. 25:6-9
Ps. 118:1-2, 14-24
1 Cor. 15:1-11 or Acts 10:34-43
John 20:1-18 or Mark 16:1-8
Christ and Mary Magdalene | Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P./Flickr
We now stand at the epicenter of a great and wondrous sacred mystery, the glorious resurrection of our Lord from the dead. Christ has “broken the bonds of death and hell, and has risen victorious from the grave,” a victory we share as the adopted children of God (BCP, p. 287). We know this mystery as the lifeblood of our being. Indeed, so transformative is this mystery that the final enemy, death itsel ..read more