Tuesday, September 17, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
El Camino Real Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves introduces an afternoon session about the Lambeth Conference on Sept. 17 at the House of Bishops meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Minneapolis, Minnesota] The...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
Julie Faith Parker. Courtesy photo via RNS [Religion News Service] That’s “childist” biblical scholar — not “childish.” But childist biblical scholar Julie Faith Parker does think adult readers have a lot to learn from the children in the Bible as well as the children...
Monday, September 16, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] A priest in the Diocese of Western Massachusetts was arrested on Sept. 12 and charged with possession of child pornography after FBI agents raided the rectory where he lives with his husband, the church’s rector. The Rev. Gregory Lisby. Photo:...
Friday, September 13, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
A prayer vigil is held outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Interfaith Coalition on Immigration organizes the monthly vigils to show solidarity with immigrant detainees and their families who come to the building for...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of San Joaquin has a goal: To become The Episcopal Church’s first solar-powered diocese. San Joaquin, located in California’s Central Valley and Sierra Nevada, has 22 faith communities and an abundance of sun. This year, it put in...
Monday, September 9, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
Sydney Brouillard-Coyle (left), a youth delegate from the Diocese of Huron who identifies as gender non-conforming, queer and asexual, receives a blessing from Primate Linda Nicholls at the closing Eucharist of General Synod 2019. Photo: Geoff Howe/Anglican Journal...
Monday, September 9, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
The Episcopal Church’s membership is mostly white, but it is taking steps to diversify its leadership to better reflect the communities it serves. A racial diversity survey of church leadership is underway. Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service...
Friday, September 6, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
A Civil War-era image of Virginia Theological Seminary shows Union soldiers and black civilians, with Virginia Theological Seminary’s Aspinwall Hall in the background. Photo: Virginia Theological Seminary [Episcopal News Service] Virginia Theological Seminary...
Thursday, September 5, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
Volunteers pitch in to clear the dying lawn at St. Barnabas’ Church in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, preparing to plant a garden with herbs, vegetables and flowers. Photo: Jubilee Consortium [Diocese of Los Angeles] Call it revival or resurrection, the...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
The Rev. Alison Cheek celebrates the Eucharist with the Rev. William A. Wendt, rector of St. Stephen and the Incarnation, in November 1974 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Harry Naltehayan/The Washington Post via Getty Images [Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Alison Cheek,...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
Christ Church on St. Simons Island in Georgia is seen boarded up in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Dorian. Photo: Christ Church, via Facebook [Episcopal News Service] Episcopal congregations from Florida to the Carolinas braced for the impact of Hurricane...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, left, kisses Chasten Glezman following their wedding on June 16, 2018, outside the Cathedral of St. James. Photo: Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP [Episcopal News Service] Before Pete Buttigieg was a leading...
Thursday, August 29, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
The Porcupine Caribou Herd in the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain, with the Brooks Range mountains in the distance to the south. Photo: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service [Episcopal News Service] For Bernadette Demientieff, rediscovering...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
[Episcopal News Service] The dioceses of Long Island and Western Massachusetts, as well as Trinity Church Wall Street and Boston-based Episcopal City Mission, have joined a lawsuit that seeks to stop President Donald Trump from redirecting federal funds to build a...
Monday, August 26, 2019 | Episcopal Church News
Constantin Bakala is reunited with his wife and seven children at San Diego International Airport in California on Aug. 19. Photo: Marc L. Lieberman [Episcopal News Service] A Congolese asylum seeker who had been separated on the U.S. border from his wife and seven...
