Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Should financially stable dioceses step help those that need more funds? An announcement that the Diocese of Leeds must review salaries, make staff redundant, and close its pension program has triggered a national debate. Leeds is the Church of England’s youngest...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
The Diocese of Tasmania plans to sell churches to pay redress to child-abuse survivors, and has extended the deadline for responses. The diocese, located in the island state to the south Australian mainland, originally set September as the deadline to complete...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Episcopal Relief & Development and the Diocese of Northern California are providing emergency support to communities struck by the Carr Fire that began on July 23. The support includes rental assistance, short-term storage for recovered belongings, food, gasoline,...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
The Diocese of Atlanta’s Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing has announced its initial goal to donate 1,308 Tutudesks to students in Africa: In partnership with the United Nations Special Envoy for Education, the Tutudesk provides the answer to the classroom desk...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Whenever I do something, I try to ask myself: “How do I want to change the world?” In writing today’s reflection, I want you to fully embrace the power you have through Jesus Christ.For many years, I had a hard time with the miracles in the Bible. The well-educated...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Loving someone else’s children may be one of the greatest gifts of the church. You know those people. The people who smile at your child whenever they see them. Those people who ask about your child and what they like to do and how they’re sleeping....
Monday, August 6, 2018
Christobal Leon Lozano | Glenda McQueen Lynette Wilson reports for Episcopal News Service: Cristobal Leon Lozano was elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Ecuador Litoral on Aug. 4. He will succeed to the Rt. Rev. Alfredo Morante España, who has been the diocesan...
Monday, August 6, 2018
Members of St. Michael’s Church in Racine, Wisconsin, have formed a chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace to provide beds and bedding for children between the ages of 3 and 17. Sleep in Heavenly Peace, based in Twin Falls, Idaho, had only two chapters in 2017. Since the...
Monday, August 6, 2018
[Episcopal News Service] One of the biggest developments at the 79th General Convention related to the Episcopal Church’s work on racial reconciliation was the approval of a new grant program to support grassroots efforts, building on the progress made under the...
Monday, August 6, 2018
Tola Mbakwe reports for Premier: The founder of Christian charity Barnabas Fund has been found not guilty of an indecent assault alleged to have taken place in 1977. After deliberating for less than two hours, the jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court unanimously found Dr...
Monday, August 6, 2018
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld | Wikimedia Commons 12 Pentecost, August 12 2 Sam. 18:5-9, 15, 31-33 or 1 Kings 19:4-8 Ps. 130 or Ps. 34:1-8 • Eph. 4:25-5:2 • John 6:35, 41-51 Trying to reclaim Jerusalem, David was in locked battle against the armies of his son Absalom,...
Monday, August 6, 2018
In today’s reading, Peter writes that the Lord has revealed the knowledge of his forthcoming death to him. I read Peter’s knowledge of his coming death as one of the greatest of God’s many, many mercies.The Ash Wednesday liturgy is one of my favorite Christian...
Monday, August 6, 2018
What a blessed treasury of riches. It is the feast of the Transfiguration. If it were not, the daily Gospel reading is from John starting at Chapter 1, Verse 1. “In the beginning was the Word.” And the summary of all the Christology needed for salvation, all the rest...
Sunday, August 5, 2018
Today’s psalm describes chronic sin, which is something that I think most people of faith struggle against (and perhaps with). We want to believe that being a person of faith means we live mostly sin-free lives. We lie to ourselves that our sins are always minor and...
Sunday, August 5, 2018
Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15 If you’ve spent five minutes on Facebook you’ve probably seen a meme that begins with, “Remember when…” or maybe it was, “Are you old enough to remember when…” and then it goes on to extol the virtues of something or another, often execrating young...
