Month: October 2026
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The Birth of a Stream VIII
The Rev. Ted Sanford II (1889–1960) was an Episcopal priest and principal of a Christian school in China when he met Agnes White and married her in 1923. Agnes was the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries to China and she had grown up and been home schooled there. From 1926-1949 Rev. Sanford pastored Trinity Episcopal Church…
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ACNA parish’s Church Director of Children’s Ministry arrested for sexual exploitation of a minor
Sam Stephens who was the Church Director of Children’s Ministry at Saint Thomas Church in Greenville, South Carolina, Anglican Diocese of the Carolinas (ADOC), was arrested on Wednesday, October 7, 2026 for “Sexual exploitation of a minor, Third degree, 1 to 25 (inclusive) images.” He was charged with one count of third-degree sexual exploitation of…
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The Birth of a Stream VII
From what I can verify in the written records, the charismatic experience entered the Episcopal Church in the 1950s. I have already described Fr. Richard Winkler’s April 26, 1956 baptism in the Spirit in Chicago Illinois. Who else do we know that underwent the same experience during that decade? The Rev. Wilbur O. Fogg was…
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The Birth of a Stream VI
Right at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in the sprawl of the Los Angeles metro sits St. Luke Episcopal Church in Monrovia. It was there in the late 1950’s that three men would form another node in a seemingly self-igniting charismatic movement within the Episcopal Church. The staff included the Rev. Stuart G.…
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The Birth of a Stream V
Bishop Pike was not a fan of the nascent neo-Pentecostalism in the Episcopal Church. He put together a commission to study speaking in tongues specifically. The commission struggled to even understand what they were supposed to be studying. As they put it: Bishop Pike constituted this Commission as a study group to report to him…