Friday, February 12, 2021 | Episcopal Church News
Katherine Marshall hands Lenten surprise bags to a parish family at a drive-by pickup at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on Feb. 7. Photo: Liz Beal Kidd. [Episcopal News Service] At last year’s Mardi Gras, many Episcopalians in New Orleans and beyond...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] A Caring Place didn’t start as a feeding ministry. When the upstart nonprofit in Lexington, Kentucky, was founded last year by members of two closely aligned Episcopal and Lutheran congregations, its primary mission was to alleviate feelings...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
First-time homeowner Evelyn Carlton, once a homeless veteran, sits on the front porch of the home she was able to purchase through Jericho Road. Photo: Courtesy of Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative [Episcopal News Service] With the support of the Jericho Road...
Monday, March 23, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Editor’s note: This story is the first in a series about how priests and lay members across The Episcopal Church are caring for one another during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have an inspiring pastoral-care story to share, send it to news@episcopalchurch.org....
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 | Community Ministry, Episcopal Church News
St. Anna’s Episcopal Church in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, has posted the names of homicide victim outside the church since 2007. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service] Though far from a good year, 2019 was a...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 | General Convention
Members of Washington National Cathedral marched in the June 9 Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. Photo: Danielle E. Thomas/Washington National Cathedral [Episcopal News Service] The full inclusion of LGBTQ people in the life of The Episcopal Church had barely...
Thursday, June 13, 2019 | General Convention
Ghazwan holding chicks in a farm previously destroyed by ISIS. Photos courtesy of International Christian Concern and Stand With Iraqi Christians [Episcopal News Service] At a cost of $5 each, chicks are helping Iraq’s Christian chicken farmers rebuild their...
Monday, May 6, 2019 | General Convention
Episcopal Church ACC member Rosalie Ballentine of the Diocese of the Virgin Islands asks May 4 for more information about the new formula for calculating provincial contributions to the Inter-Anglican Budget. Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service...
Friday, March 22, 2019 | General Convention
Katherine Karr-Cornejo of the Diocese of Spokane helps her colleagues on the Task Force to Study Sexism in TEC & Develop Anti-Sexism Training sort through some of the work the group did earlier in the meeting. Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service...
Thursday, March 21, 2019 | General Convention
The Rev. Jordan Hylden, Diocese of Dallas canon theologian, suggests that the Task Force for Communion Across Difference ought to aim to craft “a generational peace” over the church’s differences about human sexuality. Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 | General Convention
[27 de febrero de 2019] En un espíritu de bienvenida y reconciliación con la Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba (ECC), La Iglesia Episcopal anunció hoy el lanzamiento de Juntos de Nuevo: Campaña de Pensiones de Cuba, que tiene como objetivo recaudar fondos para proporcionar...
Monday, February 4, 2019 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry told clergy in the Diocese of Florida Feb. 4 to work hard to stay in relationship with Bishop John Howard even if they disagree with his opposition to same-sex marriage. During a public conversation between Curry...
Friday, January 25, 2019 | General Convention
The Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, the Executive Officer of the General Convention, announces that the 2018 edition of the Constitution and Canons together with the Rules of Order, containing all updates from the 79th General Convention, is now available in English and...
Thursday, January 24, 2019 | General Convention
Central New York Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe, left; Central Pennsylvania Bishop Audrey Scanlon, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, Olympia Bishop Greg Rickel and House of Bishops Vice President and El Camino Real Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves pray July 4 during the House of...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 | General Convention
Some of the 15 couples renewing their vows and having their marriages blessed Jan. 19 at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in north Dallas sing during the evening service. Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service –...