Forward Day By Day – August 13, 2018

Monday, August 13, 2018

When I was in my teens, I developed a painful and embarrassing skin infection that eventually engulfed my entire face. One day I woke up with what seemed like badly chapped lips, and then my entire face was covered in ugly sores. I had to drop out of school for a...

Forward Day By Day – August 12, 2018

Sunday, August 12, 2018

From both personal and professional experiences, I can testify that grief is one of the core struggles of being human. Losing someone we love breaks us in unique and painful ways. Broken was how I felt when my father died, and broken is how many of my clients have...

Forward Day By Day – August 11, 2018

Saturday, August 11, 2018

Sometime in 1978, Bob Dylan picked up a silver cross that had been tossed on stage during a concert. This small act eventually led Dylan to a very public conversion to Christianity—and a couple of albums with decidedly gospel-driven themes.Dylan seemed to grasp that...

Ashby to Lead High Desert School for Ministry

Friday, August 10, 2018

The Rev. Canon Lucinda Ashby of Idaho will serve as dean of the newly formed for the newly formed High Desert School for Ministry, a joint project of the dioceses of Eastern Oregon and Idaho. The school, a three-year local formation program for ordained ministry in...

50 Years in Northern Australia

Friday, August 10, 2018

Not many Anglican dioceses could round up every diocesan bishop who has ever served there. The Diocese of the Northern Territory, Australia’s youngest diocese, has had six bishops in its 50-year history, and they are all still alive. From Bishop Ken Mason to the...

Forward Day By Day – August 10, 2018

Friday, August 10, 2018

While I like to consider myself an educated and sophisticated Christian, I’ve noticed something about my Christian role models: They are ordinary people living extraordinary lives.Take Ernie, who is in his eighties. No one would blame him for slipping into a quiet...

Welby to Address U.N. Security Council

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Archbishop Justin Welby will become the first Archbishop of Canterbury to address the United Nations Security Council when he takes part in an open debate on Aug. 29. Karen Pierce, the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to the U.N., invited the archbishop to brief an open...

Offer a Mite

Thursday, August 9, 2018

The Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Assisting Bishop of San Diego, renews her call to support pensions for clergy in the Diocese of Cuba: Clergy in Cuba have no access to state pensions or any equivalent of social security, for their service to the church is not...

Forward Day By Day – August 9, 2018

Thursday, August 9, 2018

When I was growing up in the early 1980s, many parent-types were concerned about the influence rock musician Prince was having on teenagers. With his provocative clothing and the explicit lyrics of his songs, people asked if anything good could come out of this...

PB Praises Bishop Johnston

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Shannon Johnston listens as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry answers a question during a May 2017 news conference at Roslyn Conference Center in suburban Richmond, Virginia. | Mary Frances Schjonberg | Episcopal News Service Addressing members of the Diocese of...

Restoring a Remote Australian Church

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

It has been six years since a hymn rang out in Australia’s most remote parish church. All Saints Church, located on the far-eastern edge Torres Strait Island of Erub, has been crumbling away, but contractors are restoring the building to its former glory. Walter Lui,...

Appeal amid ‘Sudden, Severe Drought’

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Amid a crippling drought in New South Wales, Australia, the Archbishop of Sydney’s relief agency has launched an appeal to help affected communities. Archbishop Glenn Davies wants to provide resources through Anglican Aid for relief work in the north and west of the...

Forward Day By Day – August 8, 2018

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

What do you think is the greatest gift you’ll leave behind? Will you leave a legacy of children, financial gifts that will bless others, or works or ideas that will shape future generations? Peter reminds the crowd that they are indeed inheritors of great blessings...

‘New Ways of Imagining God’

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

The Rev. Ruth Meyers of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific speaks with diaconal postulant Dani Gabriel in Sojourners about liturgical revision: Gabriel: Can you say a little more about how this work fits in with larger movements for social justice? Meyers: Some...

Keillor Describes Healing Prayer

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Radio storyteller and novelist Garrison Keillor attended a morning service Aug. 5 at St. Michael’s Church in Manhattan and was overcome with emotion. Keillor was fired by Minnesota Public Radio in November 2017 after it investigated multiple allegations of sexual...