Jeff Walton
@jeffreyhwalton
Anglican Director @TheIRD in DC, “some layperson” in @The_ACNA. Decidedly non-competitive triathlete & astronomy fan.
Deputy provincial prosecutor details Ruch trial court misconduct anglican.ink/2025/07/25/dep… via @Anglican Ink © 2025
Regardless of where people land on this, the document linked here is valuable for understanding what different @The_ACNA dioceses practice regarding Holy Orders and how they are situated with their peer groups.
Seeing chatter about @The_ACNA stances on women's ordination. ACNA constitution allows for dioceses (groups of parishes under leadership of a bishop) to decide this. Here are latest numbers from annual congregational reporting. 🧵/5 docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
In June I reported that @The_ACNA Title IV (disciplinary canons) revision cycle will begin on July 29 with a virtual orientation and rollout. Registration for the 3-5pm session is now open here: anglicanchurch.net/title-iv-rollo…
Montagnards (less than 2%) and Hmong (1.45%) are a tiny percentage of the Vietnamese population, but “make up a disproportionate number … of prisoners of conscience” there.
In Vietnam as with all communist dictatorships, there cannot be real religious freedom, as the state’s ideology is hostile to religion, @RickPlasterer reports. juicyecumenism.com/2025/07/25/rel…
Bishop of Canberra & Goulburn Mark Short is the first non-metropolitan to be elected as primate since the church began electing its chief bishop in 1910, and the first evangelical to lead the church since the early 1980s.livingchurch.org/news/news-angl…
“Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” is set on a white-owned farm in 1980 Zimbabwe Rhodesia amid election between Methodist bishop & Marxist guerrilla @TheIRD juicyecumenism.com/2025/07/24/the…
NEW: July / August issue of @goodnewsmag is in mailboxes and viewable online on the @TheJWInstitute website here: nextmethodism.org/wp-content/upl…
The President of @The_ACNA Trial Court of a Bishop, David Bryan, has released a letter on behalf of the court responding to Provincial Prosecutor Alan Runyan’s resignation letter. It may be viewed here: anglicanchurch.net/wp-content/upl…
"Anglicanism is expanding ... where growth might seem unlikely," writes David Goodhew in @ChurchTimes. "The days when Anglicanism was tied mainly to English-speaking lands and/or areas that had been part of the British Empire are long gone." churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…
Coverage of the ACNA Ruch Trial developments from @ArlieColes for @Livng_Church: livingchurch.org/news/news-angl…
Much like the Japanese man not full until he has consumed rice, I am the Anglican Unscripted viewer not satisfied until I’ve had an Indian corruption story.
Reuben Mark named moderator of the Church of South India after Supreme Court orders new election anglican.ink/2025/07/22/reu… via @Anglican Ink © 2025
A JWI program designed to reach young people with the riches of the Wesleyan heritage!
Excited to host the third session of the John Wesley Institute’s Epworth Fellows program this evening. This ministry to young adults is designed to instill the best of the Wesleyan tradition. Tonight, we have Dr. Phil Tallon of Houston Christian University.
Archbishop Steve Wood has appointed Archdeacon Job Serebrov of the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy as Provincial Prosecutor in the Bishop Stewart Ruch trial, replacing Alan Runyan, who submitted his resignation on July 20. See: mailchi.mp/anglicanchurch…
Earlier this month I wrote about how Vintage Church LA is now the largest congregation in @The_ACNA. Here's a video from 2024 in which Vintage Church shares about their growth and plans for the future. youtu.be/rFmK62PK5K8?si…