Friday, February 28, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The Rev. Jay Sidebotham has produced 12 cartoons a year for the Church Pension Group calendar since 2001. Image courtesy of Church Pension Group [Episcopal News Service] In the Rev. Jay Sidebotham’s hand-drawn world, “safe church” isn’t a training. It’s a parish...
Thursday, February 27, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church has suspended official travel to a half dozen Asian and European countries, and its dioceses and congregations are urging Episcopalians to take precautions to prevent the spread of infection as concern mounts over the...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service – Brookline, Massachusetts] While many Episcopal churches have tried adapting the centuries-old tradition of Ash Wednesday to modern life by offering Ashes to Go on the streets of their communities, the Rev. Richard Burden is trying something...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The proposed 2019-2021 budget was presented on July 11, 2018, at the 79th General Convention to a joint session of the House of Bishops and House of Deputies. Photo: Mike Patterson/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service] Five years ago, The Episcopal Church,...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Bishop’s Award recipient Wayne Phaneuf receives a page from The North Star from Bishop Douglas Fisher at the third annual Blessing of Journalists at Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Feb. 25, 2020. Photo: Diocese of Western Massachusetts...
Friday, February 21, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has added his signature to an open letter from a group of Christian leaders expressing concern over President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to social welfare programs. In the Feb. 11 letter, Curry and 12 other...
Thursday, February 20, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service – Salt Lake City, Utah] Read Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s 2020 Lenten message and you may notice something different from previous years. For one thing, the tone is noticeably solemn, with phrases like “profound division,” “genuine crisis...
Monday, February 17, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Anglican Church of Mexico Archbishop Francisco Moreno signed a bilateral agreement, effectively moving the two churches into a reciprocal relationship, on Feb. 16 at a special Eucharist held at St. John’s Episcopal...
Monday, February 17, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry embraces Bishop Griselda Delgado del Carpio of Cuba after the formal readmission of her church into The Episcopal Church at the Executive Council meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Feb. 15, 2020. Photo: Egan Millard/Episcopal News...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Forrest S. Cuch addresses the Executive Council meeting on Feb. 13, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo: Egan Millard/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Salt Lake City, Utah] “The first thing I want to say is that we, as a nation, are in big trouble,”...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative founded the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in April 2018 and encouraged counties around the country to pursue local memorials for the victims of lynchings in their communities. The Episcopal Church’s Executive...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
The Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative founded the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in April 2018 and encouraged counties around the country to pursue local memorials for the victims of lynchings in their communities. The Episcopal Church’s Executive...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Farm Manager Bill Robinson gives a tour of the Crazy Chili Farm at Church of the Transfiguration in Mesa, Arizona. Photo: Lynette Wilson/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Mesa, Arizona] Like many Episcopal churches nationwide, Mesa’s Church of the...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
Farm Manager Bill Robinson gives a tour of the Crazy Chili Farm at Church of the Transfiguration in Mesa, Arizona. Photo: Lynette Wilson/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Mesa, Arizona] Like many Episcopal churches nationwide, Mesa’s Church of the...
Monday, February 10, 2020 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] The General Convention resolution aimed at making marriage rites available to same-sex couples in all the church’s domestic dioceses took affect more than a year ago, in December 2018, though the pace of implementation has varied between the...
