Friday, January 24, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Six Voorhees College students pose together for the college’s announcement in June 2019 that they were selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of the college’s paid internship program. Photo: Voorhees College [Episcopal News Service] Christina...
Thursday, January 23, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry speaks during ReviveATL in Atlanta, Georgia, on Jan. 22, 2020. Photo: Diocese of Atlanta [Episcopal News Service – Atlanta, Georgia] When it came time for the passing of the peace at ReviveATL, the rousing revival service on Jan. 22...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
St. John’s Episcopal Church dates to 1610 and the founding of the community now known as Hampton, Virginia. Its church was built in 1728. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Hampton, Virginia] No Episcopal parish has been a...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The Primates Meeting, held Jan. 13-15 in Jordan, was attended by the heads of 33 of the Anglican Communion’s 40 provinces. Photo: Anglican Communion [Episcopal News Service] The heads of 33 of the Anglican Communion’s 40 provinces gathered last week in Jordan...
Monday, January 20, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry delivers the keynote address at the 50th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast in Boston, Massachusetts, on Jan. 20, 2020. Photo: Tracy Sukraw/Diocese of Massachusetts [Episcopal News Service – Boston, Massachusetts] Presiding...
Friday, January 17, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is featured, along with the Rev. Absalom Jones and Bishop James Theodore Holly, in stained glass windows at the front of St. Edmund’s Episcopal Church in Chicago. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service...
Thursday, January 16, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
A photo shared to Marquette Area Public Schools’ Facebook page in 2015 shows a sign that features Marquette Senior High School’s nicknames and its former Indian chief logo. The logo has since been phased out. [Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians in...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Anglican Communion primates met Jan. 13 with the King of Jordan at a conference center near the site of Jesus’ baptism. The primates are meeting in Amman, Jordan, Jan. 13-15. Photo: Jordan News Agency [Episcopal News Service] Anglican Communion primates began a...
Monday, January 13, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
People protest against Trump administration cuts to the U.S. refugee resettlement program, in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington in October 2019. Photo: Reuters [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church and its refugee resettlement affiliates in...
Friday, January 10, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal leaders on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation are helping to organize an ecumenical prayer service Jan. 10 to show solidarity with the family of a woman who has been missing since November, as tribal members prepare to launch their...
Thursday, January 9, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten Glezman, attend a rally on April 14, 2019, to announce Buttigieg’s candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Photo: Reuters [Religion News Service] Former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and presidential candidate...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
An earthquake severely damaged this shop in Guanica, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 7, 2020. Photo: Ricardo Ortiz/Reuters [Episcopal News Service] Several churches in the Diocese of Puerto Rico have suffered severe damage from the series of earthquakes that have struck the...
Monday, January 6, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The Rev. William Lupfer. Photo: Trinity Church Wall Street [Episcopal News Service] The Rev. William Lupfer resigned as rector of New York’s Trinity Church Wall Street on Jan. 3 after five years leading one of the most influential parishes in The Episcopal Church. In...
Monday, January 6, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The combination of numbers, letters and symbols involved in chalking the door evoke the year, the cross and the traditional names of the kings: Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. The letters are also an abbreviation for “Christus Mansionem Benedicat,” which means “May...
Friday, January 3, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] Amid a rash of attacks against American Jews in recent weeks – and a larger trend of violent anti-Semitism in America – Presiding Bishop Michael Curry is inviting Episcopalians to join him in supporting a social media visibility campaign and...
