Thursday, November 14, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
Participants in the workshop on Confederate symbols visit All Saints Chapel at Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Photo: Sewanee [Episcopal News Service] When the Rev. Hannah Hooker traveled last week to Sewanee: The University of the South,...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
Rhode Island Bishop Nicholas Knisely speaks at the Center for Reconciliation in Providence, Rhode Island, on Nov. 10, 2019. Photo: Egan Millard/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Providence, Rhode Island] Founded in 1939 on Armistice Day – the...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
The United Thank Offering grant site pilgrims pose for a group photo outside Holy Spirit Episcopal Church in Villaescusa. Photo: Lynette Wilson/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service] At one point in the mid-19th century, almost all of the residents of...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] At its annual convention on Nov. 8 and 9, the Diocese of New York established a task force to examine how it can make meaningful reparations for its participation in the slave trade and committed $1.1 million from its endowment to fund efforts...
Friday, November 8, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service – Boston, Massachusetts] Old North Church is a living witness to one of the most significant chapters in American history. Immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” the white spire rising above the narrow streets...
Friday, November 8, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
Milwaukee Bishop Steven Miller speaks at a rally at Wisconsin’s Capitol in Madison in favor of two gun safety bills. Photo: WisconsinEye via video [Episcopal News Service] Milwaukee Bishop Steven Miller was among a handful of Wisconsin gun safety advocates who...
Thursday, November 7, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
Retired Bishop Suffragan Barbara Harris leads the Diocese of Massachusetts in singing hymns during its 2014 electing convention. Photo: Diocese of Massachusetts [Episcopal News Service] The Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing, an initiative of the Diocese of...
Thursday, November 7, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
The Episcopal Church’s Office of Government Relations is preparing for a contentious election season. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service] Nov. 3 marked the one-year countdown to the U.S. presidential and congressional elections, and...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
The House of Bishops poses for a photo on Sept. 20, the final day of its fall meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, behind a banner supporting creation care. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service] The Trump administration announced on Nov. 4...
Monday, November 4, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
In October, 19 Episcopalians took part in United Thank Offering Pilgrims on the Camino, a pilgrimage organized by UTO and the Diocese of Northern Indiana to raise awareness for a proposed Anglican Pilgrim Centre in Santiago de Compostela. Photo: Lynette...
Monday, November 4, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
Bishop John Harvey Taylor of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles catches a selfie with some of those gathered to sign the lease agreement for Bloy House’s new offices at the Lutheran Center in Glendale, administrative center of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in...
Friday, November 1, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
Native American church leaders offer a traditional blessing during the consecration of Arizona Bishop Jennifer Reddall on March 12. Photo: David Schacher, via Diocese of Arizona [Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of Arizona is stepping up its efforts to give...
Thursday, October 31, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] The Very Rev. Barkley Thompson, dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, Texas, did some dressing up on Halloween – but it wasn’t the costume he’d been hoping to wear. That’s because he lost the World Series bet he made with his counterpart...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
An ecumenical group of worshipers celebrate Eucharist Oct. 29 during a demonstration outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo: Lauren Smythe [Episcopal Church in Minnesota] As the dawn sky turned pink over the Bishop Henry...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
A firefighter gives orders as he battles the wind-driven Kincade fire in Windsor, California. Photo: Reuters. [Episcopal News Service] When the initial evacuation order came at 10 a.m. Oct. 26, the Rev. Sally Hubbell started calling around to her parishioners at St....
