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Episcopal Church celebrates first trans dean — woman in lesbian marriage to trans-identified pastor

By Michael Gryboski, Editor Thursday, September 03, 2026

The Rev. Micah Cronin, believed to be the first trans-identified dean for an Episcopal Church cathedral, preaching at All Saints' Cathedral of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Aug. 30, 2026. | YouTube/AllSaintsMKE

A Wisconsin cathedral has installed what is believed to be the first trans-identifying dean in the history of The Episcopal Church.

The Very Rev. Micah Cronin, a woman who identifies as a man, took the helm of All Saints' Cathedral in Milwaukee on Aug. 16, according to Episcopal News Service. The cathedral draws an average of just 70 worshippers on a given Sunday.

Cronin is married to a woman who goes by the Rev. Elias Henry, also a trans-identified pastor, who serves at The Corner House, a Lutheran, LGBT-affirming campus ministry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Cronin laid out her story in an introductory email to the congregation last month: raised Methodist, she joined TEC at 19, the same year she decided to self-identify as trans. 

“For clarification, this means that I was raised as a girl. For my whole adult life, I have been known and loved as myself — Micah,” wrote Cronin. “The churches I was raised in were not able to receive me as I am. But as a young person, I heard through the grapevine that the Episcopal Church would accept me.”

“I knew that no matter what I had to follow Jesus. The small Episcopal parish I walked into years ago made it possible for me to do that, through their kind, steadfast, gentle acceptance, and above all, their love.”

Cronin's appointment lands amid a decades-long freefall for The Episcopal Church. Like most U.S. denominations, it's bleeding members, and its progressive turn has driven much of the exodus.

When TEC consecrated the Rev. Gene Robinson as its first openly gay bishop in 2003, scores of congregations voted to leave in protest.

In 2010, the denomination reported that the number of active baptized members in their churches had dropped just below 2 million. By 2023, that number decreased to approximately 1.547 million people.

In a church where Jesus is glorified, the numbers grow. Where numbers diminish, it is often because God has removed His candlestick - The Holy Spirit, because of error.

For its 2024 Parochial Report, released last October, TEC omitted a membership tally, explaining that there were questions about how to properly chart the numbers.

The report noted 19,624 baptisms of children and adults in 2024, a considerable decline from 2014, when the denomination reported over 28,000 total baptisms. 

In 2024, three Episcopal dioceses in Wisconsin were merged into a single regional body, in large part because the entities had suffered considerable membership decline.

The decision, which was given final approval by the 81st Episcopal Church General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, was technically a reunification, as the three dioceses were initially founded as one statewide body in 1847.

At the time of the reunification, the new Diocese of Wisconsin included 101 congregations and approximately 11,500 baptized members, with Bishop Matthew Gunter serving as its leader.

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Antisemitism > In Mongolia? In Toronto? In Seattle?

 

Mongolia: Muslims wielding axes and knives 

and screaming ‘Heil Hitler’ attack Jews

Jul 25, 2026 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

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The Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).

Israeli travelers attacked with axes, knives at Mongolia campsite, one wounded

Jerusalem Post, July 19, 2026:

Israelis traveling in Mongolia were attacked during their travels on Monday by a group wielding axes and knives, according to Israeli public broadcaster KAN News.

The aggressors, who were local Kazakh Muslims according to KAN, also shouted “heil Hitler” and “get out of here” as they attacked the Israelis….

 Wonder if they were drinking fermented yak's milk? 

The three men in the group, who had previously served as IDF combat soldiers, were able to fend off the attackers long enough for the group to flee. One used a glass bottle to ward off an attacker, and another subdued an attacker with methods not divulged to KAN. The third Israeli tourist was less successful and received a hard blow to the face, resulting in a fractured jaw. He was flown to Israel for medical treatment after the group escaped the attackers, KAN reported, adding that the tourists informed the Israeli embassy in China and were in regular contact with the ambassador and embassy staff following the incident….

 

Canada: Muslim protester charged with ‘advocating harm against Jewish community’ at Toronto pro-Hamas protests

Jul 25, 2026 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer1 Comment

Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad may well not see what the problem is. After all, the book he thinks is the writing of the creator of the universe himself says that the disobedient Jews were transformed into apes and pigs (2:63-5, 5:59-60, 7:166) and that Jews are the “most vile of created beings” (98:6). It tells him to be “ruthless to unbelievers” (48:29) and even to “kill them” wherever he finds them (2:191, 4:89, 4:91, cf. 9:5). So it is not surprising that in a moment of overflowing Islamic fervor, he called for harming Jews. To do so, as far as he is concerned if he is a true believer in Islam, is a sacred act.

Toronto police car by Maksim Sokolov, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

More on this story. 

Terror charge laid against man accused of advocating harm against Jewish community at Toronto demonstrations

CBC News, July 22, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A 33-year-old Toronto man is facing a terrorism charge for “public statements that advocated for the detestation and harm against members of the Israeli and Jewish communities,” police say.

Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad attended pro-Palestinian rallies in the Bay Street and Front Street W. area on May 25 and Sept. 7, 2024, where he used “amplification devices” to make the statements, Toronto police said in a news release Wednesday.

Investigators carried out a search warrant at a Toronto home on March 7, 2025.

Toronto police’s hate crimes unit and a multi-agency Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) led by the RCMP later collected evidence suggesting Hajahmad “acted for the benefit of, and in association with, Hamas, a designated terrorist group,” the news release says….

Mohamed El Rashidy, defence lawyer for the accused, said his client is presumed innocent and has no connection to Hamas or any other foreign group.

“He faces a single charge arising from speaking at public demonstrations. No violence, no weapon, no one harmed. Speaking out at a protest about the killing of civilians is protected expression, not terrorism,” El Rashidy said.

 

First the Jews, Then the Gays: Seattle Muslim Congressional Candidate Shows the Next Step

Jul 25, 2026 5:00 pm By Daniel Greenfield13 Comments

“Why isn’t it on your website?” “Because a lot of Muslims do not feel that way”

Seattle I-5 skyline, Dllu, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Melissa Chaudhry is a white leftist woman who married a Muslim man and converted to Islam and kept running for public office on a platform of being anti-Israel. Since Seattle has no other problems, this is a pretty good bet for winning a Democrat primary.

Melissa is running against Rep. Adam Smith, a Dem who has been somewhat pro-Israel, and explained his recent vote to cut off aid to Israel, as due to the sustained harassment of his family by the types of people likely backing his opponents.

“My family and I have had our home vandalized, a fire has been set in my driveway, my neighbors’ lives have been disrupted by demonstrations in the middle of the night, town halls meant to be forums for dialogue have been shut down, and a staff member has been physically assaulted.”

There’s a problem though because there are two far leftist candidates in the race coming after Smith for being insufficiently pro-Hamas, Chaudhry and Kshama Sawant.

Kshama Sawant is backed by the DSA while Melissa Chaudhry is backed by the Green Party. They’re otherwise mostly indistinguishable except that Chaudhry, being Muslim, appears to be getting some sympathy from CAIR.

This raises the possibility of Rep. Smith winning reelection if the Left doesn’t unite around one pro-Hamas candidate.

The Stranger, the local indie paper, decided to help by getting Chaudhry to say what she really thinks.

“I don’t want you to publish this,” Melissa Chaudhry, a candidate for US Congressional District 9, said during an explicitly on-the-record interview in The Stranger’s conference room, “but if elected, my personal plan and commitment is to be the first Green Party member of Congress that would switch parties while I’m in office.”

…When asked which LGBTQ rights she supported, her laundry list included justice, health care, and protections in housing and employment.

“Then why is that not on your website?” an SECB member asked.

“Because a lot of Muslims do not feel that way, unfortunately,” she said.

Chaudhry countered that she really loves gay people, that her sister is gay and that she founded her high-school Gay Straight Alliance and ‘she is friends with a “disabled lesbian woman, her partner, and their autistic son.”

And, probably, that she would be gay if it weren’t for the whole Muslim thing. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Gay Dems are demanding that she drop out or that those who endorsed her drop her endorsement, but really Melissa Chaudhry was just being honest. It’s a narrow race and her best bet is the Muslim bloc vote. Yes, Muslim candidates tout the LGBTQ thing all the time, just watch Mamdani, but she was probably a bit insecure because she’s not really Muslim, just the side piece. A white woman with blonde hair can wear a hijab all she wants, but she doesn’t have the same credibility as Mamdani, whose piety is up there with members of Muslim royal families, and whose wife doesn’t wear hijab, but who in a tribal culture has more cred.

This is the future of socialist pandering to Muslims. First the Jews, then the gays. Your Party in the UK just underwent an extended struggle session before announcing it, as of now, supports LGBTQ. Expect that to be very open to change. Any party that depends on appealing to Muslims is going to eventually have to move beyond ‘Gaza’.

And since this whole Seattle primary is about supporting Hamas, the Stranger should have really asked Hamas on its LGBTQ position. They might have discovered that Muslim support for gay rights not only has a floor, but also a roof.

The Media is the Message > CBC doubles down on its far-leftness

The CBC continues to gaslight conservatives, even after its near-death experience 

The CBC has learned nothing since it stood on the precipice and stared down its annihilation at the hands of a Conservative government.

Last month, Pollara released its annual Trust in Media survey, revealing the CBC’s net trust score among Conservative voters is now just +9, compared to +78 among Liberal voters—the widest trust gap of any Canadian outlet. Conservative trust dropped 13 points in just three years.

Graphic credit: Janice Nelson

Not only that, the CBC remains utterly uninterested in exploring why it continues to fail at connecting with conservative-minded Canadians—some 37 percent of the electorate. A recent Senate report, lasting two years and calling 60 witnesses, concluded: “allegations of [CBC] bias are serious and undermine trust in the public broadcaster.” This was after some testified the CBC was “very Liberal in their views, promoting Liberal politicians,” and did not cover “moderate conservative views.” It recommended the CBC submit to periodic independent news audits tracking fairness and balance. The CBC’s response to The Hub as to whether it would consider this oversight? No comment.

Instead, the new post-election CBC mantra appears to be “Keep your head down, business as usual, nothing to see here.” But many Canadians can see—and will continue to switch off—unless the broadcaster admits its bias and offers ways to fix it. The CBC has not just lost conservative viewers who don’t want to pay for its billion-plus budget, or those who no longer feel represented on its airwaves, it’s lost conservative Canadians who are being actively antagonized by its coverage.

“The CBC is not contributing to consensus reality,” concluded Canadian writer Stephen Marche. “It is an ideologically captured institution that is listened to by an increasingly fewer number of people exactly because it does not reflect Canadian reality.”

By the skin of their teeth

During the election just over a year ago, I was receiving anxious messages from CBC hosts wondering if they would have a job in a few weeks. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s team had announced plans to eliminate all funding for its English arm, turning its Toronto HQ into housing. When President Trump repeated his “51st state” remarks,  and the polls shifted, I had hoped the Poilievre threat would at least act as a wake-up call for a broadcaster that was losing the country. Instead, the CBC saw the perfect opening. In the midst of the trade war, with help from the Liberal Party, it portrayed itself as an indispensable piece of cultural heritage.

“A new Libn Canada. In this kind

By the skin of their teeth

During the election just over a year ago, I was receiving anxious messages from CBC hosts wondering if they would have a job in a few weeks. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s team had announced plans to eliminate all funding for its English arm, turning its Toronto HQ into housing. When President Trump repeated his “51st state” remarks,  and the polls shifted, I had hoped the Poilievre threat would at least act as a wake-up call for a broadcaster that was losing the country. Instead, the CBC saw the perfect opening. In the midst of the trade war, with help from the Liberal Party, it portrayed itself as an indispensable piece of cultural heritage.

 

“A new Liberal government will never cower to President Trump’s attacks on Canada. In this kind of crisis, protecting Canada’s identity is part of securing Canada,” said Mark Carney on the campaign trail, announcing new support for the public broadcaster. “The CBC is a pillar of our cultural identity and a cornerstone of our sovereignty,” explained the Ministry of Canadian Identity and Culture in an internal briefing note. “When you have not-so-friendly neighbours talking about [a] 51st state, it’s really important we focus on how we maintain that strength and that distinctiveness of our common culture,” added new CBC CEO Marie-Philippe Bouchard. The CBC wrapped itself in the flag (a flag they had admonished the past five years) and surfed the Elbows Up wave.

Same old, same old

Subsequently, the CBC doubled down on broadcasting almost exclusively for the progressive, educated, urban elite.

It helped fund a fake TV show that paid American pranksters to humiliate unsuspecting conservatives, lost a host, Travis Dhanraj, who said he was told not to book Conservatives, and gave an exclusive fawning softball interview to noted far-Left activist and terrorist sympathizer Hasan Piker.

All questions about a perceived bias were summarily dismissed.

“The notion that we are politically oriented is really against everything that we believe and the independence that we so importantly preserve,” Bouchard assured the public.

There were some bright spots. A new five-year strategic plan alluded to focusing on “non-users or dissatisfied users.” There would be more money spent covering Western Canada and rural areas; a push to include a “more diverse set of points of view.” They would air a single documentary decrying the growth of progressive illiberalism on university campuses.

But when asked whether the organization planned to reach out to Conservatives to overcome an audience deficit, Bouchard said this was not something she considered to be an issue.

Heads down. Nothing to see here.

Taking ownership

The Carney government may still include CBC/Radio Canada in its cost-cutting efforts. Following an injection of an additional $150 million, bringing its annual public funding to a record high of $1.6 billion, there are questions around whether they will make that top up permanent and follow through with their promise of making funding statutory. Canadians should ask themselves if its behaviour should be rewarded with more taxpayer dollars. The public broadcaster is now also being tasked by the government with rooting out “disinformation”—correcting others for their biases.

If the CBC wants to find bias, it should start with itself. Other outlets have at least begun the difficult work of admitting their institutional Left-leaning bias and promised to do better. The New York Times executive editor admitted they went “too far” during the media “excesses” of recent years and affirmed that “the newsroom is not a safe space.” A former Washington Post executive editor admitted that the number of conservatives reading their paper had fallen to “single digits” due to their condescending tone. The Globe and Mail penned an editorial taking accountability for misreporting the residential school graves story.

But the CBC appears to still be on stage one of the five stages of grief: denial. It’s long past time for them to get to acceptance. Its own ombudsman has described how the public appears to have “lost faith” in public broadcasters, following allegations of bias. Viewers, she writes, are starting to ask not how public media can be made more accountable, but “why it even exists.”

It is essential that the CBC, which will soon employ more than one in three Canadian journalists, come out and say what everyone else can see: it has a conservative-shaped hole in its journalism.

“Accountability…We’re not very good when questioned ourselves,” admitted CBC News editor-in-chief Brodie Fenlon at a 2023 panel on trust in media.

If only the CBC practiced what it preached.

The time has come for the public broadcaster to admit its glaring blind spot

Harrison Lowman