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stating that he was resigning as dean due to "the ongoing tension he feels in serving in the
Episcopal Church." After leaving the Advent he was released at his request from the Episcopal Church and received into the Anglican Church of North America. In September 2021 he started start a new Anglican congregation in Birmingham known as Grace Church. The Reverend Canon Craig Smalley was named interim dean and rector in May 2021 and after an international search named the permanent dean and rector in May 2022.
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Protestant doctrine of justification by faith alone. In 2016, the Advent hired Zac Hicks, a presbyter in the
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