Anglican Watch

Washington National Cathedral backs away from sneak-selling tickets to Christmas worship

Washington National Cathedral and Randy Hollerith again poke their tails into the laundry wringer

It’s Advent, so in true surly Anglican Watch fashion, we’re calling BS on the Washington National Cathedral for its policy on” free” worship services this Christmastide. To be clear, we ardently support efforts by the church to promote financial stability. Far too many Episcopal churches, schools, dioceses, and other entities act like Episcopalians of

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Time to ask Barb Kempf some tough questions, and other steps for improving clergy discipline in the Episcopal Church

No clergy bullies

Today’s post is about Title IV, the Episcopal clergy disciplinary canons. Specifically, what reasonable steps can we take to improve Title IV? For starters, let’s look at how Title IV functions today. Our take—far from unbiased—is that the best-managed cases rise to mediocrity. Those cases are few and far between,

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