Monday, August 10, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Christ Church in Sparta, North Carolina. Courtesy photo [Episcopal News Service] An earthquake that shook northwestern North Carolina awake on the morning of Aug. 9 caused minor damage to a church in Sparta, the town closest to the epicenter. No one was inside Christ...
Thursday, August 6, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Glass doors were shattered at All Saints Church in Beirut, Lebanon, after an explosion at the city’s port on Aug. 4, 2020. Courtesy photo [Episcopal News Service] In the aftermath of the devastating explosion that caused widespread damage across Beirut, Lebanon,...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Fourteen people were buried out of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Montclair, New Jersey, from early October 1918 through the end of the year, with half of those occurring in October, six between Oct. 8 to Oct. 15 alone. Photo: John Mennell/St. Luke’s Episcopal Church...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry joined Rabbi Shoshanah Conover, senior rabbi at Temple Sholom of Chicago, Illinois, and Mohamed Elsanousi, executive director of the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers, to discuss how faith...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] The Brotherhood of St. Andrew’s top national leaders have issued a “statement of public apology” after the 137-year-old organization’s mishandling of internal discussions over its racial reconciliation work and its response to national...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Clergy and laity from Southern California churches acknowledged complicity with racist structures and systems as they participated in an Aug. 1 “Vigil in Solidarity and Love” at Los Angeles’s Leimert Park to show solidarity and to affirm that Black lives...
Friday, July 31, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Presiding Bishop MIchael Curry speaks July 28 during the first session of Becoming Beloved Community NOW, which was hosted on Zoom and livestreamed on Facebook. [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church’s Becoming Beloved Community NOW, a three-part series of...
Thursday, July 30, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal leaders in the Diocese of West Texas are assessing the impact of Hurricane Hanna, which made landfall on July 25 as a Category 1 storm and prompted Gov. Greg Abbott to declare a disaster in 32 counties. The diocese has congregations...
Thursday, July 30, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Protesters gather at the Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, on July 24, 2020. Photo: Arwen Myers [Episcopal News Service] When the Rev. Sara Fischer heads downtown in Portland, Oregon, to show solidarity with the protesters there – which she has...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] Three Black members of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew resigned this month from the national board of the 137-year-old Episcopal men’s organization in protest of what they criticized as top leaders’ fumbled reaction to the police killing of...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops concluded a two-day online meeting by voting July 29 on measures that commit it to confronting racism among its own members, as well as a pastoral letter raising concerns about the deployment of federal...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Hilton Als arrives at the 15th annual Hammer Museum Gala in the Garden on Oct. 14, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops gathered on Zoom on July 28 for the first session of...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Jenny Fife introduces Sacred Ground to the discussion circle that Fife formed in Roanoke, Virginia, to take up the 10-part, film-based curriculum. The meetings were held at St. John’s Episcopal Church starting in January 2020. The pandemic interrupted the...
Monday, July 27, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Lonnie Lacy, rector of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Tifton, Georgia, had been looking forward to seeing “Hamilton” in Atlanta with his daughter for months. But then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the performance...
