Episcopal News Monthly, a newspaper printed in conjunction with diocesan partners, and Episcopal News Quarterly, a supplement to certain diocesan quarterly news magazines, will cease publication with the January 2011 issues.
The final issues of both publications, which will be produced before Christmas, mark the end of the Episcopal Church’s 50 years as a newspaper publisher. Episcopal News Service will continue to operate online, offering a mix of news stories, commentary, photos and video reports. The ENS website is due for a major redesign in 2011.
Subscribe instead to http://livingchurch.org
Not a big loss. Over the years it had become a self-censored organ of TEC’s left.
When I was a boy the national church magzine was called FORTH, continuing The Spirit of Missions. The Living Church is going to twice a month while some other churches continue a monthly magazine. I think abandoning the task of communicating with the people in the pews is another mistake.
Sorry Tom, the ceasing of an effort to propagate heterodoxy and contra-orthodox spin is a good thing. Very, very bad organizationally, of course, like all of the cuts Mrs Schori and her friends have imposed on 815’s budget, of course. But, they simply must continue the spending of millions and millions and millions of dollars on her Gospel imperative to prosecute her lawsuits against Christian believers.
I never grieve the demise of organs of propaganda since they always sacrifice truth for an agenda.
Question is, how many will notice. Haven’t read the thing in years, just like I don’t read the junk mail from cheap clothing retailers. Don’t need plastic shoes, don’t need hyper-plastic religion.
In my family we liked to say that the only thing Episcopal Life was good for was to line a birdcage, only we didn’t have a bird, and if we did even it would deserve better.
Dan, this “organ of propaganda” is not dying simply changing format to online. Won’t bother me either way. I never read it and won’t miss it. It is simply a cost cutting measure made to shore up the funds for all those lawsuits……