The Right Reverend Pierre W. Whalon is a regular columnist and essayist at Anglicans Online

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• Haiti and the Devil: Debunking the claims that Haiti's earthquake tragedy was God's revenge on Haiti for making a 'deal with the devil'.
• What We Think We Are Doing: Wherever one is on the spectrum of opinion, to have no theology for full inclusion, while more or less practicing it, is worse than having bad theology. Bad theology cries out for better theology. No theology, however, calls the whole enterprise into question.
• Covenant—was ist das auf Deutsch?: Looking at what 'covenant' might mean in other languages.
• What Didn't Happen at General Convention 2009 and What Did? Don't believe all the headlines
• Covenanting to Covenant: Reflections on the Third ('Ridley') Draft of the proposed Anglican Covenant.
• Off With 'On War': A review of Girard's 'Achever Clausewitz'
• On Polygamy, Homosexuality, and Generosity: Systematic vs. Moral Theology?
• Peering Past Lambeth: Thinking about what the future might look like after Lambeth 2008.
• What’s Really At Stake for the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion
• A Bishop's Estimate of the Situation: Placing the current Anglican turmoil in a larger context, and making recommendations for action.
• Where Have All the Christians Gone? A report of a visit to Teheran in January 2007. (In French [online] and in Farsi [PDF]).
• Alive and Well: rumours of the demise of the Anglican Communion are greatly exaggerated. December 2006.
• Ecclesia Semper Reformanda or So It Goes: In a new two-part essay, Bishop Pierre Whalon considers 'where The Episcopal Church is at present with respect to its inner life and the wider Communion' and then attempts to provide 'some analysis of what needs to happen next'.
• Anglicans in Europe—A Model? Bishop Whalon reflects on the Anglican diocesan structure in Europe to see if it might be a model for other places.
• 'I saw the Holy City...' The bishops of the Episcopal Church confront the necessity of rebuilding after disaster.
• A review of Grace and Necessity Bishop Pierre Whalon takes a careful look at the ambitious undertaking of the Archbishop' of Canterbury, to consider the role of art and the artist in society.
• Dispatch from St Peter's Basilica The Inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI and the audience with the Pope the following day.
• The Ghost of Bishop Pike, Revisited On the recent Covenant issued by the US House of Bishops
• To Whom Do We Belong? On identity, membership, and communion
• Leading 'the Church Throughout the World' On the global role of bishops
• Back to Iraq On being a Christian in a non-Christian country.
• 'Playing at Cassandra?' The Anglican Communion after the Eames Commission report: The day after tomorrow...
• Thought, Love, and Bishops, or, The Ghost of James Pike On building a theological basis for recent events.
• The Hard Work of Reconciliation Just what's behind the Delegated Pastoral Oversight plan approved by the House of Bishops.
• Postcard from Camp Allen The first few days of the House of Bishops meeting in March 2004, at Camp Allen, Texas.
• The Conflicts of Apostles on Christian unity.
• The Blight of Parallel Jurisdictions With 20,000 denominations, does it matter? Yes.
• Why This Issue? Bishop Whalon pointedly asks the question. And he essays an answer.
• At General Convention Reflections from the floor of the House of Bishops, August 2003
• Crossing Boundaries Why there is a need for dioceses to be aware of their edges: June 2003.
• Can Sheherazade Tell Us One More? Bishop Whalon's report and photo journal of his trip to Baghdad in February 2003.
• Whose Sin is it, Anyway? What's right with the original sin.
• Is It Just War? Wondering aloud if a preventive strike against Iraq is morally justifiable. This article was also published in the International Herald Tribune on 14 November 2002 in a shortened version, titled 'A Moral Justification for Going to War'. You can read the IHT version here.
• How Should We Christians Relate to People of Other Faiths? At the anniversary of September 11, finding the answer is evermore urgent.
• Israel, Jews, Islam, Muslims, and European Christians How Christians should react to right-wing violence.
• Nous sommes tous des américains On France and its role in religious politics.
• Piety Reconciling an old concept with a modern world.
• Becoming a Bishop in Rome One day in November 2001 ...
• A letter from Paris 11 September 2001
• Join the Ministry and ... ? More thoughts on the 20/20 Vision.
• The Travail of Planting New Churches First we stop the committee meetings.
• What Will it Take to Double Our Size? Musing about evangelism in the Episcopal Church in the USA.
• What is the Difference between Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism? (See also our Spanish and French translations of this essay.)
• The Discipline of Canonical Enforcement Anglicans have traditionally avoided canonical discipline. When that changes, what happens next?
• Our Piece of the Puzzle The Communion begins at our parish doorstep.
• Flying Bishops Revisited Will this Church of England concept work in ECUSA?
• Nothing in common? What does koinonia really mean?
• Resolution D039 Why all the fuss?
• Episcopalian Democracy General Convention matters.
• Planting a Rainbow Why aren't we planting churches in black communities?
• The True Measure of a Successful Parish: There's a problem when you count only live bodies in pews.
• Pour être bon catholique, j'ai dû quitter l'Église de Rome 'To become a good Catholic, I had to leave the Church of Rome'. In French.
• Heresy versus Schism Is it better to be heretical or schismatic?
• The Centrist Moment Has the time come?