A friend of Anglican Watch previously served as canon to the ordinary in a prominent east coast diocese. We’ve had many good conversations with her. In the context of clergy discipline, her viewpoint has proved enlightening. Specifically, she reports that it’s hard for bishops to get a good feel for what’s happening
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The holey hierarchy of TEC
Imagine the United States with a different form of government. There is an elected monarch, parliament, and supporting bureaucracy at the federal level. But no one is quite sure how much power the monarch has, so it’s never entirely clear what her role is. Constitutionally, there is a bill of
Continue readingTop ten tips for managing conflict
Editor: I previously published the following in Episcopal Cafe in 2013. Conflict. Even the word itself makes us cringe a little. It has a hard, biting edge. In the back of our minds, the word conjures up unsettling images — of dentists’ drills, of that last really bad cold, of
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