Atheism-combatting academic to speak at St. James Episcopal

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Despite a sharp drop in national membership and much-publicized controversies, the dean of the Episcopal Church's Virginia Theological Seminary thinks the denomination's future is bright.

"It's a good, healthy robust church," said the Very. Rev. Ian S. Markham, dean and president of the 193-year-old seminary in Alexandria, Va. "I think the future of the (American) Episcopal Church is the future of Anglicanism," the communion of churches with historical connections to the Church of England.

Markham will bring this message to Wilmington on Thursday for a free lecture at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall at St. James Episcopal Church, 25 S. Third St.

The public is invited.

Markham, who has headed VTS since 2007, is recognized as a scholar in Christian ethics with a master's degree from Cambridge and a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter in England.

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