Friday, October 16, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] With every release of parochial report data – the statistics on attendance, membership and finances that every parish in The Episcopal Church must submit yearly – a picture of the denomination’s future comes gradually into focus. It’s not a...
Friday, October 16, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The sculpture “Homeless Jesus” has been installed on the property of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Bay Village, Ohio, since Oct. 12 and will be there through Dec. 1. Photo: Alex Martin [Episcopal News Service] St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Bay...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Renee Lopez stands on a log in Jewel Lake, Sierra Wilderness. After leaving the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Santa Clara County, California, he joined St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Saratoga, which had ministered to him in jail. He now is a confirmed...
Monday, October 12, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] It was inevitable, heading into the October meeting of Executive Council, that the coronavirus pandemic would color much of the work of the church governing body. Cases of COVID-19 are still on the rise in the United States and worldwide, and...
Monday, October 12, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Washington National Cathedral. Courtesy photo [Episcopal News Service] As the United States struggles through a time of turbulence and tension, Washington National Cathedral will host a national interfaith prayer service on Sunday, Nov. 1 – two days before Election...
Friday, October 9, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council gathered online Oct. 9 to open its fall meeting with church leaders invoking the themes of darkness and light as they highlighted Episcopal responses to the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice and...
Thursday, October 8, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
William Lygon Corbin and Claude Florence Corbin died within months of each other in 1918 and 1919 and are buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Photo: George Seitz [Episcopal News Service] In November 1992, North Carolina Bishop Robert Estill received a...
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...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The Rev. Holly Herring, canon precentor at Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix, Arizona, offers spiritual counseling to Jim and Kay Shumaker during an outing of her “Pop-up Pastor” mobile ministry Aug. 30, 2020, in Ahwatukee. Photo: Tony Gutiérrez/ENS [Episcopal News...
Monday, October 5, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Albany Bishop William Love celebrates the Eucharist at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Schenectady, New York, in November 2015. Photo: St. George’s Episcopal Church [Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. William Love, bishop of Albany, violated his...
Friday, October 2, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
U.S. President Donald Trump waves to reporters as he departs with first lady Melania Trump to travel to Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 29, 2020. Trump tweeted late on Oct.1 that he and the first lady have both tested positive for COVID-19. Photo: REUTERS [Episcopal News...
Friday, October 2, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Members of the Johnson Service Corps, part of the Episcopal Service Corps network, had two weeks of “quaran-tation” in their houses in Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina, before they could being their service work. Photo courtesy of Andrew Hudgins...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The Rev. Kim Jackson speaks to a man after washing his feet. Courtesy photo [Episcopal News Service] As vicar of Church of the Common Ground, a street-based ministry, the Rev. Kim Jackson serves homeless and vulnerable people living on the streets of Atlanta, Georgia....
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The Rev. Kim Jackson speaks to a man after washing his feet. Courtesy photo [Episcopal News Service] As vicar of Church of the Common Ground, a street-based ministry, the Rev. Kim Jackson serves homeless and vulnerable people living on the streets of Atlanta, Georgia....
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry first achieved a bit of global celebrity in 2018 after his “Power of Love” sermon at the royal wedding. National and international media outlets clamored to interview him about the sermon, which had...
