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The Rt Revd George R. Sumner was Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas from 2015 to 2025.
Rachel Teubner, PhD, is a Research Associate in Medieval Studies at Harvard University and Scholar in Residence at the Church of the Advent.
The Rt. Revd. and Rt. Hon. Lord Chartres, GCVO, served as Bishop of London from 1995 to 2017.
The Rt. Revd. and Rt. Hon. Lord Chartres, GCVO, served as Bishop of London from 1995 to 2017.
The Rt. Revd. and Rt. Hon. Lord Chartres, GCVO, served as Bishop of London from 1995 to 2017.
The Rt. Revd. and Rt. Hon. Lord Chartres, GCVO, served as Bishop of London from 1995 to 2017.
The Rt. Revd. and Rt. Hon. Lord Chartres, GCVO, served as Bishop of London from 1995 to 2017.
The Rt Revd George R. Sumner was Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas from 2015 to 2025.
This sermon was preached at the Solemn Mass celebrated in association with the Anglo-Catholic Conference, "New Life in Christ: Anglican Approaches to Confession", held at the Church of the Advent November 6-7, 2025.
Fr Nicolas Stebbing is a priest of the Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican monastic community and seminary based in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, UK; and a co-founder and trustee of Tariro UK, a charity working with young people in Zimbabwe.
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The Gauguin painting referenced in the sermon may be seen here:
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/4940
The Revd Dr Justyn Terry is Vice-Principal and Academic Dean of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University.
The Rt Revd Julia Whitworth is the XVII Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.
Dr Ryan Danker is an author, historian, and scholar of modern English Christianity who has served as Director of the John Wesley Institute since 2021.
The Revd Dr Jeffrey A. Hanson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL, and served on the staff of the Church of the Advent from 2016 to 2024.
Fr. Montgomery is the Chaplain of St. James School in Hagerstown, MD, and Vicar of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Boonsboro, MD.
The Most Rev. Eliud Wabukala is the retired Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya.
More about darnel (Lolium temulentum), the weed referenced in today's Gospel reading (Matt. 13:24-30, 36-43) and this sermon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolium_temulentum
Dr Sanders discusses "Preaching to Robots: Chalcedonian Christology and the Other-than-Human".
Dr Brent S. Sirota discusses the founding of the Church of the Advent, its inspiration in the scene of American Romanticism, and how the parish contributed to the development of a distinctly American form of Anglo-Catholicism.
Dr Sirota is associate professor and the Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He specializes in the religious and political history of Great Britain and the wider British world in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
Theology on Tap is an educational ministry of the Church of the Advent, Boston.