Anglican-Episcopal Church of Christ the King, Frankfurt

19/04/2026

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12/04/2026

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07/04/2026

With some four hours ticking down on a doomsday clock wound by a doom-infatuated president, it feels somehow both utterly pointless and urgently necessary to write a testament of some kind for a set of ideas generally categorized as “decency” that are being traduced and cast aside.
I am a bishop of the church. More to the point, I am a bishop of a church with its roots in America’s beginnings, now present in nations outside of the United States—eight of them here in Europe. Where I serve, we are no longer a church of gathered American expatriates; Americans are no longer a majority in our congregations.
Yet when the United States does things that are troubling, or puzzling, or inexplicable, our neighbors not unsurprisingly still turn to us and ask: Why?
So—incredibly—this needs to be said without clever constructions or pulled punches.
There is absolutely no justification within the frame of Christian moral teaching, or within the understanding of just war theory—both the jus ad bellum and the jus in bello—for the destruction of a civilization. None. To speak in such terms is language unworthy of a democratic nation and beneath the dignity of any leader deserving of the name.
The threats made in the last six hours by the American president are abhorrent and wrong by any measure and against any metric. They are utterly in conflict with the teaching of core tenets of Christian moral theory, and with the teaching of the Episcopal Church as reflected in the fundamental commitments of our baptismal covenant. No person who has taken a covenant to “work for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being” can countenance a declared objective of destroying a human civilization.
It makes no defense to say that this president is in thrall to hyperbole and cannot be taken seriously. If the American people have chosen a leader based primary on entertainment value than on clear-eyed and level-headed wisdom, if President Trump is man whose continuing fall into moral confusion is the result of never having been made to know consequences for his speech, that is no justification for the deaths of potentially millions of innocent people, no matter what their religious convictions or system of belief.
The war-worshipping rhetoric now seemingly captivating an American government little more than an adult version of Lord of the Flies is utterly opposed to the Christian call to love our neighbors as ourselves, to defend the vulnerable and welcome the stranger. We are called to be peacemakers, but we can make no peace with this.
To say this is to make no case for the heinous acts of a theocratic regime in Iran that for nearly fifty years has oppressed its people, denied the full humanity of women, and sponsored countless acts of atrocity around the world. Nor is it to claim that this church—or any church—has always been faithful in its actions to what it proclaims in its beliefs.
Yet even all of that of that amounts to no justification whatsoever for the kind of actions boastfully threatened by the president of a nation of people still free to live by the dictates of their conscience. There can be no justification for it. And make no mistake: This church, arising as it does from that moment in America’s history, stands fundamentally against not just the doing of these outrages but the threatening of them as well. The Christ who went vulnerable to the cross stands with the vulnerable, and calls us to do so alongside him.

27/03/2026

25/03/2026

[Episcopal News Service] The following is a transcript of Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally’s sermon March 25 during her installation service at Canterbury Cathedral: For nothing will be impo…

10/01/2026

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26/10/2025

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18/09/2025

A message from our House of Bishops:

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28/07/2025

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19/07/2025

From our bishop:

https://mailchi.mp/episcopaleurope/cece-speaking-the-truth-gaza?e=ac3c5f62d5&fbclid=IwY2xjawLoONtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHrVtV-Sn46BHLzm1n4u94EFrmW66sbuQZ_NUyLxxO0QZO6gEplS48UG1WCyM_aem_4jyKYdJ36pWkmEK33iyU0g

It is he who makes wars to cease in all the world;he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear,and burns the shields with fire.