Pennsylvania Bishop Sean Rowe Elected New Leader of Episcopal Church. He’s the Youngest Since 1789
Rowe compared the church’s challenges to the collapse of the steel industry, which had employed his grandparents, when he was growing up.
Why the Swing State Faith Voters Who Really Matter in 2024 Aren’t Evangelicals
MAGA evangelicals grab all the headlines. But it’s swing state faith voters — Catholics, mainliners, and Black Protestants — who will likely decide the election.
When Denominations Confront Christian Nationalism
This issue of A Public Witness looks at an Episcopal Church resolution, a PC(USA) recommendation, and a regional UMC resolution to see how some mainline Protestant groups are wrestling — or not — with their own complicity in spreading Christian Nationalism.
Episcopal Church Grapples With ‘Transformative Role’ in Native American Residential Schools
Two commissions overseeing research into the denomination's part in the assimilationist schools are asking Episcopal bishops to grant access to archives in their regions and to recruit research assistants of their own.
The Episcopal Church Reveals Clergy Misconduct Cases Involving Nominees for Presiding Bishop
The announcement comes less than two weeks before the election of the denomination’s next leader.
70 Years Under God
This issue of A Public Witness looks at how a progressive mainline Protestant minister stamped Christian Nationalism on our nation in ways none of today’s evangelicals have.
Ivory Coast Splits With UMC but Kenya and Other African Conferences Slow To Follow
‘You don’t throw away the relationship of your sibling because you do not agree on an issue,’ said a former UMC bishop from Nairobi.
Unbaptizing America
“Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism” has officially launched — check out the conversation we had to celebrate with Dr. Diana Butler Bass, Rev. Adriene Thorne, and Dr. Andrew Whitehead.
Latino Episcopalians in the Spotlight With Gutiérrez Presiding Bishop Nomination
Latino Episcopal clergy say that their congregations are thriving.
With Strawberries and Goats, a ‘Farmastery’ Reaches Out to Its Neighbors
Part of the new monastic movement began three decades ago among lay Protestants, Spring Forest is a model for how Christians can work, eat and worship as a community.