Almighty and eternal God, who has so made us of body, soul and spirit, that we live not by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from thee: Make us to hunger for the spiritual food of thy Word; and as we trust thee for our daily bread, may we also trust thee to give us day by day the inward nourishment of that living truth which thou hast revealed to us in thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness. Because of this he is bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people. And one does not take the honor upon himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him,

“Thou art my Son,
today I have begotten thee”;

as he says also in another place,

“Thou art a priest for ever,
after the order of Melchiz′edek.”

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear. Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchiz′edek.

–Hebrews 5:1-10

You may find some basic information about it there.

Off to Diocesan Convention for today and Tomorrow https://t.co/i2B8MUZl63 #anglican #diocese #southcarolina #parishministry #lowcuntrylife @CityCharleston #charlestonsc #saintphilipschalreston #meetings pic.twitter.com/TsxY68ajqr

— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) March 14, 2025

O Heavenly Father, subdue in us whatever is contrary to thy holy will, that we may know how to please thee.  Grant, O God, that we may never run into those temptations which in our prayers we desire to avoid.  Lord, never permit our trials to be above our strength; through Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Happy Friday all! pic.twitter.com/QPXgjbaQth

— David Oxtaby (@Disc_light) March 14, 2025

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I command you this day for your good? Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it; yet the Lord set his heart in love upon your fathers and chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as at this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Love the sojourner therefore; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve him and cleave to him, and by his name you shall swear. He is your praise; he is your God, who has done for you these great and terrible things which your eyes have seen. Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.

–Deuteronomy 10:12-22

🌱💙 March Garden Friday Blues… #Pulmonaria #FlowersOnFriday pic.twitter.com/239evWt0hf

— Cloudymamma (@cloudymamma) March 14, 2025

When asked to come to Liverpool to serve temporarily as diocesan Bishop, the Rt Revd Ruth Worsley “basically said no”, but promised that she would think about it.

“I wanted to do it on my terms,” she told the Church Times in an interview after her appointment as Interim Bishop of Liverpool had been announced.

After sleeping on the question, she proposed that, instead of “Acting Bishop”, the job should be more clearly defined as “Interim Bishop”, with a stated duration of at least two years.

“I’m not going to be on loan. I’m going to be there as a fully committed, paid-up player, joining in with all that the diocese is seeking to do,” she said.

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New interim Bishop of Liverpool: ‘I like to keep it simple . . . a non-anxious presence’ https://t.co/YulEGBylDX

— Church Times (@ChurchTimes) March 7, 2025

Few would expect the future of artificial intelligence (AI) to depend on Eindhoven, a quiet Dutch town. Yet just beyond its borders sits the headquarters of ASML, the only company that makes the machines, known as lithography tools, needed to produce cutting-edge AI chips. ASML’s latest creation is a 150-tonne colossus, around the size of two shipping containers and priced at around $350m. It is also the most advanced machine for sale.

The firm’s expertise has placed it at the centre of a global technology battle. To prevent China from building whizzy AI chips, America has barred ASML from selling its most advanced gear to Chinese chipmakers. In response, China is pouring billions of dollars into building homegrown alternatives. Meanwhile, Canon, a Japanese rival, is betting on a simpler, cheaper technology to loosen ASML’s grip. Yet unlike software, where industry leadership can shift in a matter of months, success in lithography is a slow-moving race measured in decades. Overtaking ASML won’t be easy. At stake is control of the machine that will shape the future of computing, AI and technology itself.

ASML’s most advanced machine is mind-boggling. It works by firing 50,000 droplets of molten tin into a vacuum chamber. Each droplet takes a double hit—first from a weak laser pulse that flattens it into a tiny pancake, then from a powerful laser that vaporises it. The process turns each droplet into hot plasma, reaching nearly 220,000°C, roughly 40 times hotter than the surface of the Sun, and emits light of extremely short wavelength (extreme ultraviolet, or EUV). This light is then reflected by a series of mirrors so smooth that imperfections are measured in trillionths of a metre. The mirrors focus the light onto a mask or template that contains blueprints of the chip’s circuits. Finally the rays bounce from the mask onto a silicon wafer coated with light-sensitive chemicals, imprinting the design onto the chip.

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ASML’s tools are indispensable to modern chipmaking. Rivals are now racing to dethrone the company—but it won’t be easy https://t.co/WNWBencgIo

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) March 14, 2025

A Christian street preacher prosecuted after criticising Islam is celebrating a win for free speech after his case was thrown out by a judge this week. 

At a hearing at Wolverhampton Crown Court, Mr Recorder G Kelly dismissed the case against Karandeep Mamman, 33, on the grounds that the Crown Prosecution Service had failed to provide any evidence for the charges brought against him.

Mr Mamman was charged under section 28 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 for causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm and distress after preaching in Walsall town centre on 14 January 2023.

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Mr Mamman said he was surrounded by a group of Muslims who threatened to take him away, beat him up and "cut his throat".https://t.co/t3B6oclWPI

— Christian Concern (@CConcern) March 11, 2025

By March 2025, the pews of America’s churches tell a story of absence. Five years after COVID-19 shuttered sanctuaries, the faithful have not fully returned. Barna Group’s 2023 data revealed that one in three practicing Christians stopped attending during the pandemic’s peak, and while some trickled back, weekly in-person attendance among evangelicals — once exceeding 50% — now hovers near 35–40%, per reasonable extrapolation. Online worship persists, with 15–20% of believers logging in rather than showing up. The decline is not a mere statistic; it is a clarion call — a spiritual and cultural crisis demanding a conservative Christian reckoning. The church, God’s embodied witness, risks fading into a digital mirage unless we reclaim its sacred purpose.

This is no benign adaptation to modernity. Scripture commands us, in Hebrews 10:24–25, to “consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some.” The early church of Acts 2 didn’t stream sermons—they gathered, broke bread, and lived faith face-to-face. Yet today, we’ve traded this divine mandate for the flickering glow of screens, seduced by a culture that prizes convenience over conviction. The pandemic was a catalyst, not the cause; it exposed a pre-existing drift toward a privatized, consumerist Christianity. As conservatives who cherish tradition and truth, we must name this exodus for what it is: a quiet rebellion against God’s design.

The culprits are manifold, woven into the fabric of a society unmoored from biblical moorings. Technology, our pandemic lifeline, has become a gilded cage. By 2025, churches boast polished livestreams — AI-enhanced, no less — offering worship on demand. Pew Research noted in 2022 that 30% of regular attendees shifted online, and many stayed. Why rise early when you can replay the sermon over coffee? This isn’t progress; it’s capitulation to a secular ethos that reduces faith to a commodity. Meanwhile, government overreach lingers in memory — 2020’s lockdown mandates, upheld by courts but decried by conservatives, bred distrust in institutions, including the church. Some still balk at returning, fearing control more than communion.

Younger generations amplify the crisis….

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The Vanishing Flock: Reclaiming the Church in a Post-Pandemic Wilderness https://t.co/NlX5JfUt0D

— 🇺🇸RON BEATY🇺🇸 (@ronbeatyjr) March 13, 2025

Most gracious God, by the calling of thy servant James Theodore Holly thou gavest us our first bishop of African-American heritage. In his quest for life and freedom, he led thy people from bondage into a new land and established the Church in Haiti. Grant that, inspired by his testimony, we may overcome our prejudice and honor those whom thou callest from every family, language, people, and nation; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Today the Episcopal Church commemorates James Theodore Holly, Bishop of Haiti, and of the Dominican Republic, 1911

A missionary in Haiti from 1861, Holly was the 1st African-American bishop in the Episcopal Church when consecrated Bishop of Haiti in 1874 pic.twitter.com/pyNKYEE9Bz

— The Anglican Church in St Petersburg (@anglicanspb) March 13, 2024

O Lord and heavenly Father, who hast given unto us thy people the true bread that cometh down from heaven, even thy Son Jesus Christ: Grant that throughout this Lent our souls may so be fed by him that we may continually live in him and he in us; and that day by day we may be renewed in spirit by the power of his endless life, who gave himself for us, and now liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end.

Good Morning 🙂 Finally on 'Either side of night' week, the sun rises on a new early spring day above the iconic Cobb at Lyme Regis…

If you like it, please give it a repost!#lymeregis #dorset #thursdaymotivation #StormHour pic.twitter.com/5jw3Xf2M7T

— Gary Holpin | Photography (@GaryHolpin) March 13, 2025

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

“As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall never enter my rest,’”

although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” And again in this place he said,

“They shall never enter my rest.”

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he sets a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,

“Today, when you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later of another day. So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God; for whoever enters God’s rest also ceases from his labors as God did from his.

–Hebrews 4:1-10

The sun is rising. Can you feel that spark of inspiration? Today is yours!
Nauset beach, Cape Cod. #sunrise pic.twitter.com/ln7FLe8qop

— Darius Aniunas (@dariusaniunas) March 13, 2025

The new Interim Dean of Winchester, Canon Roland Riem, has promised transparency and “radical candour” in response to a review, published last week, which identified leadership failings at Winchester Cathedral (News, 3 March).

In a statement read out to the cathedral’s congregation on Sunday, Canon Riem said that the Chapter would publish updates on its response to the review at three-monthly intervals.

Canon Riem, who was previously Vice-Dean of the cathedral, was confirmed as Interim Dean after the Very Revd Catherine Ogle brought forward her planned retirement.

In a statement last week, she apologised on behalf of the Chapter, saying that, although it had to accept “collective responsibility”, as its leader, she had decided to step back immediately (News, 7 March), ahead of her planned retirement.

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The new Interim Dean of Winchester, Canon Roland Riem, has promised transparency and “radical candour” in response to a review, published last week, which identified leadership failings at Winchester Cathedralhttps://t.co/GbElq3J8JX

— Church Times (@ChurchTimes) March 12, 2025

Diners and drinkers in a popular area of London are leaving more than 100 prayer requests a month after they are invited in by a nearby church for a special evening where they light candles, listen to music and pray.

Congregation members at the Parish of Our Most Holy Redeemer in Clerkenwell, in the Catholic tradition of the Church of England,  head out on a Thursday night every month after Mass with votive candles and lanterns to invite people in the busy Exmouth Market area into the church.

Vicar Fr Christopher Trundle said the Night Light evening, focussed on prayer, contemplation and adoration in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, is attracting up to 150 people, with more than 100 prayer requests left by those visiting.

He said that congregation members go out into the crowds in Exmouth Market to “invite people to encounter the love and beauty of God in Jesus Christ”.

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Diners and drinkers in London are leaving more than 100 prayer requests a month after being invited in by a nearby church to light candles, listen to music and pray as part of a new initiative.

Read more at https://t.co/emJhkN5rdi.

— The Church of England (@churchofengland) March 6, 2025

The Church of England has announced that the Revd Canon Samantha Brazier-Gibbs will take up the role in June.

She will be tasked with engaging younger people, enhancing community support, and increasing church attendance.

Currently, she is the parish priest for three rural churches in the Chelmsford Diocese and leads a team of ministers responsible for 14 parishes around Chipping Ongar.

Read it all.

ANNOUNCED TODAY
The Revd Canon Samantha Brazier-Gibbs has been appointed Archdeacon of Ipswich & Director of Inspiring Ipswich. Samantha is presently Vicar of Blackmore St Laurence and Stondon Massey Ss Peter & Paul with oversight of Fyfield St. Nicholas, diocese of Chelmsford. pic.twitter.com/spox6S1spE

— Rich Henderson (@archdeaconrich) March 9, 2025

After the loss of his goods, the death of his children, the wounds of his body, the words of his wife persuading him to evil, the insulting language of his comforters, and the darts of so many sorrows boldly received, blessed Job ought to have been praised by his Judge for such great power of constancy, if he had been now going to be called out of this present world. But after he is here about to receive back yet two-fold, after he is restored to his former health, to enjoy longer his restored possessions, Almighty God is obliged to reprove with strict justice him, whom He preserves alive, lest his very victory should lay him low with the sword of pride. For what commonly slays a soul more fatally than consciousness of virtue? For while it puffs it up with self-consideration, it deprives it of the fulness of truth; and while it suggests that it is sufficient of itself for the attainment of rewards, it diverts it from the intention improvement. Job, therefore, was just before his scourges but he remained more just after his scourges; and, having been praised before by the voice of God, he afterward; increased from the blow. For as a ductile tube is length ened by being hammered, so was he raised the higher in praise of God, as he was smitten with heavier chastisement But he who stood thus firm in his virtues, when prostrated by wounds, needed to be humbled. He needed to be humbled, lest the weapons of pride should pierce that most sturdy breast, which it was plain that even the wounds that had been inflicted had not overcome. It was doubtless necessary to find out a person, by comparison with whom he would have been surpassed. But what is this, which is said of him by the voice of the Lord; Thou hast seen My servant Job, that there is no man like him upon the earth. Job 1:8; 2:3. By comparison with whom then could he be surpassed, of whom it is said, on the witness of God, that he cannot be equalled, on comparison with any man? What then must be done, except for the Lord Himself to relate to him His own virtues, and to say to him, Canst thou bring forth the morning star in its season, and canst thou make the evening star to rise over the sons of men? Job 38:32. And again, Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the gloomy doors? ib. 17. Or certainly; Hast thou commanded the dawn after thy rising, and hast thou shewn the morning its place? ib. 12. But who can do these things, but the Lord? And yet a man is asked, in order that he may learn that he is unable to do these things; in order that a man, who has increased with such boundless virtues, and is surpassed by the example of no man, may, that he should not be elated, be surpassed on comparison with God.

—-Gregory the Great (540-604), Book of Morals 6.Preface.1

“Saint Gregory the Great, Pope” by Francisco Goya (ca. 1796-1799) pic.twitter.com/dGVrY4hC30

— Tradical (@NoTrueScotist) September 3, 2020

Almighty and merciful God, who didst raise up Gregory of Rome to be a servant of the servants of God, and didst inspire him to send missionaries to preach the Gospel to the English people: Preserve in thy Church the catholic and apostolic faith they taught, that thy people, being fruitful in every good work, may receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Epistles of St. Gregory the Greathttps://t.co/1ak9NZLP63 pic.twitter.com/pMeO35a9DW

— Memento Mori (@TempusFugit4016) March 12, 2025

Almighty God, spirit of peace and of grace, whose salvation is never far from penitent hearts: We confess the sins that have estranged us from thee, dimmed our vision of heavenly things, and brought upon us many troubles and sorrows.  O merciful Father, grant unto us who humble ourselves before thee the remission of all our sins, and the assurance of thy pardon and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

—Prayers for the Christian Year (SCM, 1964)

Grand Rising…#WednesdayMotivation #spring #weather #sunrise #GoodVibesOnly #StormHour #jefinuist #outerhebrides #scotland pic.twitter.com/wR0fXTv77B

— DaliMach (@frenchscotjeff) March 12, 2025

Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end, while it is said,

“Today, when you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they should never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

–Hebrews 3:12-19

Frost At Dawn. 1°C down by the stream. Blackbirds singing. pic.twitter.com/LBP1FbURrZ

— Yorkshire Wolds Weather (@WeatherWolds) March 12, 2025

US electricity consumption is rising faster than it has in decades, thanks in part to the boom in data center development, the resurgence in manufacturing, and the increasing popularity of electric vehicles. 

Accommodating that growth will require building wind turbines, solar farms, and other power plants faster than we ever have before—and expanding the network of wires needed to connect those facilities to the grid.

But one major problem is that it’s expensive and slow to secure permits for new transmission lines and build them across the country. This challenge has created one of the biggest obstacles to getting more electricity generation online, reducing investment in new power plants and stranding others in years-long “interconnection queues” while they wait to join the grid.

Fortunately, there are some shortcuts that could expand the capacity of the existing system without requiring completely new infrastructure: a suite of hardware and software tools known as advanced transmission technologies (ATTs), which can increase both the capacity and the efficiency of the power sector.

ATTs have the potential to radically reduce timelines for grid upgrades, avoid tricky permitting issues, and yield billions in annual savings for US consumers.

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The cheapest way to supercharge America’s power grid https://t.co/fqZ8rCxHM3

— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) March 10, 2025

Throughout China’s annual legislative meeting, the national leader Xi Jinping made clear that he wants nothing to hold back his plans for China to march past its rivals by becoming a technological superpower. Not the economic slowdown or heavy local government debt, nor a trade war with the United States.

The meeting in Beijing, called the National People’s Congress, was once a stage for Communist Party leaders to make a show of public consultation. Congress delegates, although handpicked by the party, sometimes chided officials over problems like pollution. There were even rare flashes of discord among senior officials.

Mr. Xi, though, has turned the meeting into a meticulously orchestrated, weeklong salute to himself and his vision. This time, he urged China to forge ahead in advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, biotechnology and new weapons.

“Xi has seen how decades of investment into science by the U.S. government after World War II was a knockout success for the United States, and wants to replicate that,” said Jimmy Goodrich, who studies China’s science policies as a senior adviser at RAND Corporation.

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What Slowdown? Xi Says China Must Win the Global Tech Race
Well sort of…. https://t.co/AJ7299v2qA

— Paul Triolo (@pstAsiatech) March 11, 2025

In her introduction to your latest book, Jesus Changes Everything, Tish Harrison Warren mentions something many Christians are concerned about: that we live in a post-Christian world. She’s wondering if we actually are living in a pre-Christian world and whether that might not be such a bad place to be. What’s your take on the time in which we live and the opportunities in front of the church?

Well, the mainstream Protestant church is dying. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing. It makes us free. I mean, for some time people argued that the world would go to hell if it were not Christian. That may be the case. But being Christian doesn’t mean you need a Christian America. 

What I think we’re experiencing is the ultimate working out of nihilism, which so often goes with liberalism. Liberalism is the presumption that you should have no story except the story you chose when you had no story.

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In an interview with @Plough’s Charles E. Moore, Stanley Hauerwas meditates on the necessity of the gospel, the politics of the kingdom, and the high demands of sanctification.https://t.co/XI9F2ySH5C

— Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) March 11, 2025

(Via email-KSH).

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I am sending my quarterly Provincial Letter a few weeks early as I have good news to report.

First, greetings from Christ Church Plano, where I am attending the G25 GAFCON Global Mini Conference, along with 120 Primates and Bishops from around the world. This gathering, organized by +Paul Donison, the General Secretary for GAFCON, is an endeavor to introduce our most recently elected Bishops to the history of, and our deep roots in, GAFCON.

As I have reported in previous updates, over the past several months we have been engaging in a restructuring process, which has included a review of our current provincial staff structure and functions, the audit and assessment of our current internal systems and platforms, the development of a new organizational chart, and the recruitment and screening of candidates for four new Director roles.

Before I introduce you to our four new Directors, I wanted to offer a few words of thanks. First, and most profoundly, I am grateful to and appreciate the work of Deborah Tepley. Her commitment to Jesus Christ and His church is deep, inspiring, and gives guidance to her life and work. Deborah has led our restructuring work these past several months with excellence and the whole of our Province is indebted to her.

Secondly, our Restructuring Committee, an ad hoc committee of the Executive Committee, has been meeting regularly since November and guiding this process for the Province. The work of this Committee, comprised of Dr. Joan Deeks, Sheryl Vittitoe, Bishop Ryan Reed, and Deborah Tepley, is now completed. I am incredibly grateful for the time, effort and expertise this Committee has contributed over these past months. I am also grateful for the support of those who made up our interview teams, which included Jonathan Millard+, +Steve Breedlove, Sheryl Vittitoe, Lee Hilts, and Jeff Weber+.

As a part of our overall structural changes, we are changing Deborah Tepley’s title from Chief Operating Officer to Executive Director, as this reflects the full extent of her role and is a title typical in a non-profit setting. 

Now, onto introductions. We have hired four Directors: Director of Outreach and Development, Director of Administration and Operations, Director of Safeguarding and Canonical Affairs, and Director of Finance (fractional). I am providing the names and bios of our four new hires below. Please join me in welcoming this incredibly talented and experienced group to the Provincial staff team. 

Kate Harris, our new Director of Outreach and Development, brings a diverse background in non-profit and ministry leadership, most recently serving as the founder and principal of Pulley Advising, a strategy firm helping mission-driven clients grow their impact. She began her career as a press officer for the Colorado State Senate and worked in strategic communications for U.S. Senate leadership. She later helped found and manage stakeholder relationships for Wedgwood Circle, supported business development for the University of Oxford Estates Division, and managed special projects for Oxford Analytica, a global consultancy. Subsequently, Kate served as Interim Executive Director of The Fellows Initiative and as Executive Director of The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture, where she authored Wonder Woman: Navigating the Challenges of Motherhood, Career, and Identity (Zondervan, 2014) and was Assistant Producer of ReFrame, a 10-week film-based course developed by Regent College to help Christians connect their faith with all areas of life. She has an MA in English Literature, was an Ingram scholar at Vanderbilt University, and graduated with a BS in Journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Kate and her family are active members of Restoration Anglican Church (Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic) in Arlington, Virginia, a church plant of The Falls Church Anglican, where she worshipped for more than 17 years after first arriving as a Falls Church Fellow in 2002. Kate is wife to a good man and mother to their four children. Kate says, “I am so grateful for Anglicanism’s faithful witness and practices that prioritize unity and shared hope in Christ. I am excited to learn from all of the amazing ministry leaders who have built the Church into what it is today, and I’m eager to help discern and contribute to its next season of mission and growth.”

Dr. Tiffany Butler, our new Director of Safeguarding and Canonical Affairs, possesses a rare blend of extensive religious and theological studies focused on practical theology, canon law, and ethics, practical experience supporting the canonical presence of the church in the world and in ecumenical dialogue, and approximately six years’ professional experience as an Ethics and Compliance Specialist focused on Safeguarding with World Concern, a Christian international transformational development organization. Dr. Butler holds a PhD in Ethics and Practical Theology from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity. Her thesis examined the intersection of migration, ecclesiologies, and canon law. Dr. Butler also holds an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary with an emphasis in Just Peacemaking and two BAs – one from Seattle Bible College in Practical Theology with a Global Outreach major and another from the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies in the Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, Peace, and Security track. Dr. Butler is a competent, fluent, and sympathetic communicator, and she has over 20 years of experience working locally and internationally among faith-based organizations in Belize, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, and Kenya.

Dr. Butler has been a member of the ACNA and her local parish of Holy Trinity Edmonds (Diocese of Cascadia) in Washington State since 2018. She quickly became involved as a researcher for the Orthodox Church in America and the Anglican Church in North America (OCA/ACNA) Ecumenical Dialogue Task Force, particularly concerning rapprochement and canonical affairs. Dr. Butler also served as a lay member of the Cascadia Diocesan Council and a lay representative at GAFCON 2023.

Dr. Butler enjoys worshiping with her local church family at Holy Trinity Edmonds, and she is excited to serve the wider ACNA Province as the Director of Safeguarding and Canonical Affairs. She says, “I am passionate about the Church being a safe place for all, particularly for vulnerable individuals. My vocational means of serving Christ’s Church is through relationships expressed in the living canons. Alexander Schmemann defined the quality of canonicity as that which serves to ‘assure, express, defend, and fulfill the Church as Divinely given Unity.’ My heart is to work diligently by the grace of God in Christ Jesus to ensure that our actions as a Province meet this high calling for the good of the whole in love.”

Dan Hassler, our new Director of Administration and Operations, brings a significant breadth of experience from his 14 years of service at The Moody Bible Institute. As Director of Change Management, Dan led projects and initiatives spanning every aspect of the Institute, including Education, Publishing, Finance, HR, Operations, IT, and Advancement. In his most recent position, Dan has served as the Manager of Business Analysis for the Information Technology Services department at Moody. In this role, he has been instrumental in implementing new software, meeting complex needs with efficient solutions, and developing and shepherding a team of IT experts. His greatest professional joy is identifying organizational needs and crafting meaningful solutions. Dan holds a BA degree from The Master’s College.

Dan and his family are active members of Cornerstone Anglican Church (Diocese of the Upper Midwest) in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago, IL, where Dan serves on the Vestry as the Treasurer. He is married to Desirée, his beloved wife of 26 years and father to four amazing kids. They live in Oak Park, IL, a Chicago suburb. In his free time, Dan enjoys reading (extensively) and playing bluegrass banjo (poorly). Dan says, “The Anglican Church has played a pivotal role in my spiritual growth in recent years and I am honored to have this opportunity to use my giftings to ensure that the ACNA flourishes for years to come.”

Keith Moore, our interim fractional Director of Finance, came to Christ at 21 and has been a serial small-business entrepreneur since graduating from Covenant College in 1976. In 2000, he decided to take his business experience and use it on behalf of churches and faith-based nonprofits. He worked with numerous nonprofits such as Mission to the World, World Hope International and International Justice Mission on enterprise software projects and served as Project Director for a multi-mission back-office support group. He served as the Director of Finance Manager at Grace DC, a PCA network of churches in Washington, DC, where he resides and also is a member. In 2014 he began working on the concept of remote business support for churches which led to founding Auxilio in 2019 which today supports over 150 churches and nonprofits in 33 states.

Keith is married to Patty (50 years this June) and they are blessed with four children and 15 grandchildren. Keith says, “I am very excited to be part of this journey that God has the ACNA on and to help the Provincial office and staff become an even more strategic, missional and helpful support to the dioceses, congregations and congregants.”

We are currently hiring for a Content and Media Relations Manager, who will support Kate Harris, as well as an Events Manager, who will report to Dan Hassler.

Last but not least, we are preparing for Provincial Council, which will be held at Trinity Anglican Seminary’s new Trophimus Center on June 18-20. This will be a smaller event for Bishops and diocesan delegates.

Please know that this letter comes with my gratitude for our shared ministry and my continued prayers.

Yours in Christ, 

Archbishop Steve Wood

Provincial Letter from Archbishop Steve Wood. https://t.co/15IogndvSx

— ACNA (@The_ACNA) March 11, 2025

The sell-off shows no sign of stopping. America’s S&P 500 index dropped by another 3% on March 10th, leaving the world’s most watched stockmarket down by almost 9% since its peak last month. The NASDAQ, dominated by tech firms, has fallen by 13%. It is not quite the bold new era of American growth that President Donald Trump had in mind.

His unpredictable trade policies got things going. Tariffs of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico—which were instituted on March 4th, before being suspended for a month on March 6th—top investors’ list of concerns. But after years of impressive growth, the future of the American economy is a growing source of anxiety, too, with worries provoked by a steady drip of discouraging data. Such news is beginning to undermine belief in American exceptionalism: after all, investors have seen much better returns in China and Europe this year. And as is often the case when markets fall, each development has revealed fresh things to lose sleep over.

Read it all.

After years of impressive growth, the future of the American economy is a growing source of anxiety. If the president wants to turn things around, which does not yet appear to be the case, it may take something big https://t.co/sGcNyWtmqB

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) March 11, 2025

Blessed Lord, who wast tempted in all things like as we are, have mercy upon our frailty.  Out of weakness give us strength; grant to us thy fear, that we may fear thee only; support us in time of temptation; embolden us in time of danger; help us to do thy work with good courage, and to continue thy faithful soldiers and servants unto our life’s end.

🌄 House of the rising sun

📍 Queen’s Ride, Richmond Park

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— The Royal Parks (@theroyalparks) March 11, 2025

Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly call, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession. He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in God’s house. Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house. (For every house is built by some one, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, but Christ was faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today, when you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, “‘They always go astray in their hearts;
they have not known my ways.’
As I swore in my wrath,
“‘They shall never enter my rest.’”

–Hebrews 3:1-11

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— Manoco (@Moonlighhy) March 11, 2025

“The Death of the Hired Man” by Robert Frost is an extraordinary poem. In a deceptively simple narrative style, it relates the discussion between a farmer and his wife over whether to offer shelter to the itinerant labourer whose work has been somewhat unsatisfactory in the past.

Silas has arrived at their doorstep, “a miserable sight — and frightening too”. Warren is unwilling to offer him employment again, but Mary’s kind heart won’t allow him to turn away a man who has “nothing to look backward to with pride and nothing to look forward to with hope”. She believes that he has “come home to die”, which feeling gives rise to the well known phrases: “Home is the place where, when you have to go there They have to take you in,” and “I should have called it Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.” Warren is persuaded to offer Silas work in order to keep his pride, but this offer is redundant: Silas, worn out by life and aware of reaching sanctuary at last, has died.

In a strange, lyrical way, this poem sums up the joy and the challenge of the “welcoming church”: the grace-filled obligation to accept in Jesus’s name every person who seeks entry to the worshipping community, no matter who they are or what they might believe. Every church leader, I suspect, secretly prides themselves on their welcoming attitude to stranger and seasoned churchgoer alike, and, if we are occasionally troubled by a feeling that perhaps not everyone feels instantly “at home”, then how easy it is to reassure ourselves that the fault lies, if not with the congregation, then certainly with one or two trickier members of it.

Enter the mystery worshipper….

Read it all.

In the parish: Sally Welch begins a series on how to ensure parish churches are as welcoming as they would like to behttps://t.co/iDumAsZFGG

— Church Times (@ChurchTimes) March 7, 2025

From the choppy waters of the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait to the frozen ridges of the Himalayas, China is pursuing a relentless campaign of expansion, operating in the hazy zone between war and peace to extend its power across Asia.

Beijing carefully calibrates each move with the aim of staying below the threshold of action that could trigger outright conflict. But, step by incremental step, it has pushed deeper into contested areas, exhausting opponents and eroding their strength with a thousand cuts.   

Whether it is probes by war planes, maneuvers by coast guard ships or the creeping construction of new civilian settlements, China is constantly pushing boundaries in what security strategists call the “gray zone.” It tests the limits of what its opponents consider tolerable behavior, escalating a bit with every new action.

The Wall Street Journal reviewed years of ship-movement data, satellite images, flight-tracking information and other measures of Chinese activity. Taken together, it shows a clear intensification of tactics meant to intimidate rivals and deepen China’s control.

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China Is Waging a ‘Gray Zone’ Campaign to Cement Power. Here’s How It Looks. Years of ship-tracking data, flight paths and satellite images show a clear intensification of Beijing’s tactics across a swath of Asia@NiharikaSM https://t.co/WpfFAILKYRhttps://t.co/WpfFAILKYR

— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) March 10, 2025

The question of which view of religious freedom—the Puritans’ or the Quakers’—was the more Christian one is a debate for theology; it seems plain to me at least that the Quaker view is more that of contemporary Christianity, especially as articulated in the Catholic Church’s Dignitatis Humanae. What the social science behind the Pew Religious Landscape Survey can suggest is that, at least in the long run, Quakers’ respect for freedom of conscience might be more effective than Puritans’ integration of church and state in maintaining a Christian society. Although the differences in Christian identification between New England and the Delaware Valley today are not so large in the case of certain states, the Delaware Valley still comes out on top; and its metropolis, Philadelphia, easily outdoes New England’s preeminent city, Boston. Moreover, the one outlier state in New England that does better than much of the Delaware Valley in Christian religiosity—Rhode Island—was precisely founded on the principle of religious freedom, in protest of Puritan rigidity. 

How might New England’s and the Delaware Valley’s different religious attitudes have accounted for their long-term religiosity? Although many New England Puritans were surely sincere, their harsh public policing of orthodoxy led many other Christians (like Roger Williams) to leave New England. Many who stayed perhaps conformed outwardly without interior sincerity. Some came to see Christianity cynically—as a tool of hypocritical political rulers who only wanted to control others—and they made little effort to pass on belief to their children. Others conformed out of fear and came to see Christianity as rules by which to live in order to survive, not a truth that sets one free; such religiosity was probably not very attractive to potential converts. Many later New Englanders, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, saw the society of their Puritan ancestors this way—as shown in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Speculations aside, both historical data and scholarship (such as Kevin Vallier’s book All the Kingdoms of the World) show how religiously authoritarian regimes tend to harm both religious and political culture in the long run.

In the Delaware Valley, on the other hand, religion and politics were clearly distinguished: people were given the freedom to open themselves genuinely to religious truth, without fear of political reprisal. Thus, as Dignitatis Humanae says, truth was allowed to enter their minds “by virtue of its own truth, . . . quietly,” and therefore permanently, “with power.” If religious truth is to take possession of a person, he has to make it his own, in love, until he says with the poet in the Song of Songs: “I have got him, and I will not let him go.”

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Society Stays Christian Longer If It Respects Religious Freedom: New Evidence from Pew https://t.co/6XZtA79pwL

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) March 7, 2025

Mark Carney won the race to become Canada’s next prime minister, putting the former central banker in charge of the country just as US President Donald Trump’s administration threatens its economic future.

The ex-Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor won the contest to lead the Liberal Party of Canada with nearly 86% of the vote. The transfer of power from Justin Trudeau to Carney is expected to take place within days, and it’s possible he will call a national election soon after.

Carney, 59, takes the reins at a time when the White House is creating upheaval in the global economy — and with US trading partners — with increasingly chaotic tariff announcements.

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Mark Carney won the race to become Canada’s next prime minister, putting the former central banker in charge of the country just as US President Donald Trump’s administration threatens its economic future https://t.co/X1vP9okDUj

— Bloomberg (@business) March 9, 2025