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The Right Reverend Pierre W. Whalon is a regular columnist and essayist at Anglicans Online .
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- A Bishop's Estimate of the Situation: Placing the current Anglican turmoil in a larger context, and making recommendations for action.
- Where
Have All the Christians Gone? A report of a visit to Teheran in January 2007. (In
French [online] and in Farsi [PDF]).
- Alive
and Well: rumours of the demise of the Anglican Communion are greatly
exaggerated. December 2006.
- Ecclesia
Semper Reformanda or So It Goes: In a new two-part essay,
Bishop Pierre Whalon considers 'where The Episcopal Church is at
present with respect to its inner life and the wider Communion' and
then attempts to provide 'some analysis of what needs to happen next'.
- Anglicans in Europe—A Model? Bishop
Whalon reflects on the Anglican diocesan structure in Europe to see if it might be a model for other places.
- 'I saw the Holy City...' The bishops
of the Episcopal Church confront the necessity of rebuilding after disaster.
- A review of Grace and Necessity Bishop
Pierre Whalon takes a careful look at the ambitious undertaking of the Archbishop' of Canterbury, to consider the role of art and
the artist in society.
- Dispatch from St Peter's Basilica The
Inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI and the audience with the Pope the following day.
- The Ghost of Bishop Pike, Revisited On
the recent Covenant issued by the US House of Bishops
- To Whom Do We Belong? On identity,
membership, and communion
- Leading 'the Church Throughout the World' On
the global role of bishops
- Back to Iraq On being a Christian
in a non-Christian country.
- 'Playing at Cassandra?' The Anglican
Communion after the Eames Commission report: The day after tomorrow...
- Thought, Love,
and Bishops, or, The Ghost of James Pike On building a theological basis for recent events.
- The Hard Work of Reconciliation Just
what's behind the Delegated Pastoral Oversight plan approved by the House of Bishops.
- Postcard from Camp Allen The
first few days of the House of Bishops meeting in March 2004, at Camp Allen, Texas.
- The Conflicts of Apostles on Christian
unity.
- The Blight of Parallel Jurisdictions With
20,000 denominations, does it matter? Yes.
- Why This Issue? Bishop Whalon
pointedly asks the question. And he essays an answer.
- At General Convention Reflections from
the floor of the House of Bishops, August 2003
- Crossing Boundaries Why
there is a need for dioceses to be aware of their edges: June 2003.
- Can Sheherazade
Tell Us One More? Bishop Whalon's report and photo
journal of his trip to Baghdad in February 2003.
- Whose Sin is it, Anyway? What's
right with the original sin.
- Is It Just War? Wondering aloud
if a preventive strike against Iraq is morally justifiable. This article
was also published in the International Herald Tribune on 14 November 2002 in a shortened version, titled 'A Moral Justification
for Going to War'. You can read the IHT version here.
- How Should We Christians Relate to People
of Other Faiths? At the anniversary of September 11, finding the answer is evermore urgent.
- Israel, Jews, Islam, Muslims, and European
Christians How Christians should react to right-wing violence.
- Nous sommes tous des américains On
France and its role in religious politics.
- Piety Reconciling an old concept with
a modern world.
- Becoming a Bishop in Rome One day in November
2001 ...
- A letter from Paris 11 September
2001
- Join the Ministry and ... ? More thoughts
on the 20/20 Vision.
- The Travail of Planting New Churches First
we stop the committee meetings.
- What Will it Take to Double Our Size? Musing
about evangelism in the Episcopal Church in the USA.
- What is the Difference between Anglicanism
and Roman Catholicism? (See also our Spanish and French translations
of this essay.)
- The Discipline of Canonical Enforcement Anglicans
have traditionally avoided canonical discipline. When that changes, what happens next?
- Our Piece of the Puzzle The Communion
begins at our parish doorstep.
- Flying Bishops Revisited Will this
Church of England concept work in ECUSA?
- Nothing in common? What does koinonia
really mean?
- Resolution D039 Why all the fuss?
- Episcopalian Democracy General Convention
matters.
- Planting a Rainbow Why aren't we planting
churches in black communities?
- The True Measure of a Successful Parish: There's
a problem when you count only live bodies in pews.
- Pour être bon catholique, jai dû
quitter lÉglise de Rome 'To become a good Catholic, I had to leave the Church of Rome'. In French.
- Heresy versus Schism Is it better to
be heretical or schismatic?
- The Centrist Moment Has the time come?
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