A conversation with the Rev. Danny Bryant of St. Mary of Bethany Parish in Nashville, Tennessee, about their Equitable Healing Reparations Initiative, which is seeking to pay student debt for Black therapists as an act of repentance and reparation for the church's complicity in racism. Links from this episode: Find our more about C4SO is [...]

We continue our Leaders Unplugged mini-series by talking with the Very Rev. Dr. Kris McDaniel, C4SO's Canon for Church Development, and the Rev. Dr. Brad Swope, C4SO's Director of Church Planting. We discuss why C4SO focuses on planting churches, as well as how we seek to do so: not as "franchises" but as contextualized Anglican [...]

We continue our Leaders Unplugged mini-series by talking with the Rev. Trish Nelson, C4SO's Canon for Ordinations. We discuss what Anglican ordination is, how it relates to the priesthood of all believers and the ministry life of the whole church, and how it works in C4SO. Trish was also declared a one-woman super spreader event [...]

We start a new series today called Leaders Unplugged, where we will hear from leaders in our diocese about their role in C4SO. We hope it gives everyone a sense of the diverse life of our nationwide diocese. Today we talk with the Very Revs. Leon McKenzie and Drew Henley about their relationship as co-pastors of [...]

We kick off 2021 with a conversation about the recent manifestation of Christian nationalism we saw in the Capitol attack on Epiphany. Bishop Todd shares on how to notice the idolatry of Christian nationalism in the church, and resist it in the way of Jesus. Links from this episode: Download Bishop Todd's "Current Issues Facing [...]

As a final tag to our Advent Hope in Harsh Times series, Bishop Todd brings a Christmas message to C4SO, encouraging us to face the harsh realities of 2020, and also tend to the larger reality of the kingdom of God by worshiping Christ, the newborn King this Christmas. O come, let us adore him! [...]

We finish our series Advent Hope in Harsh Times this week by talking with Christine Warner, Executive Director of the Matthew 25 Initiative, an Anglican community of biblical justice and mercy contending for shalom on the earth. Christine shares her story of getting hit by a truck two and a half years ago, almost losing [...]

We continue our series Advent Hope in Harsh Times this week by talking with another of our Canon Theologians, Rev. Dr. Dennis Okholm, professor of theology at Azusa Pacific University. Dennis shares some of the themes of a book he's writing inspired by a Stanley Hauerwas comment that "hope must be schooled by patience." Dennis [...]

We continue our series Advent Hope in Harsh Times this week by talking with Rev. Jon Odom, lead pastor at Cornerstone Church in Tulsa. Jon shares about the struggle to find hope in the midst of two tragic deaths they recently walked through: losing a baby and the murder of a beloved couple in their [...]

We continue our series Advent Hope in Harsh Times this week by talking with Rev. Kimberly Deckel, associate pastor (and soon-to-be co-pastor!) at All Souls Phoenix. Kimberly shares her story of grief and loss in 2020, which includes the death of her father, launching their church the week before the pandemic started, and the complexities [...]