The Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council has announced that its quarterly magazine, Anglican Episcopal World, will cease publication after 36 years.
On Dec 4, Canon Kenneth Kearon told ACC staffers in London the magazine would cease publication immediately after a 126 issue print run.
In just a few years, quite a lot of publications have closed up shop:
Anglican Free Press (Canada)
Foundations (ESA)
The Anglican (USA)
The Evangelical Catholic (ESA/FiFNA)
Tufton Review (English Church Union)
Machray Review (Prayer Book Society of Canada)
and perhaps others.
Fully expect a lot of publications to fold, re: the internet. A newspaper from a large city, which sent subscriptions to his city, 120 miles away, has informed him that he can “subscribe” on the web page for the daily and will still receive the Sunday paper copy delivered to his door. No charge of course for the web paper and the usual $2 for the Sunday……this paper will continue to print the daily in the large city……think of all the wonderful hours spent reading the newspaper. And when done, the things is was good for back in the old days – insulation, wrap the garbage (no plastic bags), line bureau drawers (too poor to have drawer liner fancy paper), cover the table to do crafts, so as not to get glue on Mom’s table….and the list goes on….sigh
“Anglican EPISCOPAL World”
What a revealing title! But she who pays the piper calls the tune.
Of course, many of us would still regard the Anglican Consultative Council’s staff as “Anglican EPISCOPAL World,” with the emphasis on the “Episcopal” and the world.
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“Nor is it known if subsidies from the United States that had underwritten the magazine in past years had been withdrawn”
Gotta focus on ECUSA’s core mission: lawsuits.
Dee [#2]: If life seems a bit empty without used newpapers, remember that you still get plenty of junk mail and can stitch it together (with environmentally sustainable thread) into any size, shape, or pattern you want.
I actually liked the Anglican Episcopal World. That was one of the few publications that was worth anything. Maybe they should call in Rupert Murdoch; he controls everything else. 😉
This makes me sad! I enjoyed this magazine, too! I used to subscribe but it didn’t seem as though I got all of my promised issues, so I let the subscription lapse. It was a FINE magazine — full of wonderful stories and pictures of Anglicans around the world.
When I subscribed, I remember a bit in one of the issues about them needing more subscriptions to make a go of it. I told friends and asked them to consider subscribing. I guess they didn’t get enough subscriptions to tuirn things around, sigh. They really should have put the word out in a bolder way, though. This is a magazine that deserves wide readership!
I will miss it. The ability to have full color photos and decent newsy articles (without theological embellishment for the most part) in a magazine pulling in from all over the Anglican Communion has been nice for our parish magazine rack, especially in a time of encroachment of parochialism.
And on the “Episcopal” comments, my understanding was that a good portion of the argument to add the word had to do with the variety of Anglican Communion provinces that used the term “Episcopal” rather than “Anglican.” I believe the proprietary argument (as in, most of the magazine’s underwriting came from TEC or people in TEC) was not so much.
RGEaton
#1, Churchman,
You forgot one: The Witness, the flagbearer for every liberal social cause there was, formerly edited by Barbara Harris. Now that’s one Episcopal magazine whose demise I don’t mourn one bit.
David Handy+