Monday, December 17, 2018 | General Convention
“Today Show” co-hosts Hoda Kotb, left, and Savannah Guthrie listen Nov. 1 as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry talks about the power of love. It was one of many media interviews Curry gave this year. Photo: “The Today Show” [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 | General Convention
Voters on Oct. 29 take advantage of early-voting stations set up in the “mural room” at Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Photo: Lauren Reisman [Episcopal News Service] Episcopal congregations across the country are at the forefront of voter...
Monday, October 29, 2018 | General Convention
Responding to General Convention resolution B017, the Episcopal Church’s Faith Formation Department and the Board of Directors of Episcopal Service Corps (ESC) announced today that the functions and tasks of the 501(c)(3) organized as Episcopal Service Corps will be...
Monday, October 22, 2018 | General Convention
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preaches May 19 during the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in Windsor, Britain. Photo: Reuters [Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has collected five of his most...
Monday, August 20, 2018 | General Convention
Helen K. Spence, president of the Diocese of Virginia’s standing committee, announces plans for a provisional bishop to serve for three years or more: The process the Standing Committee will follow will be similar to what happens in a parish when a rector leaves, and...
Monday, August 20, 2018 | General Convention
Church of the Incarnation has merged with Trinity Church in Dallas to create new growth in a parish that has declined in attendance for several years. The new campus, Incarnation North, is scheduled to launch public worship in August 2019, said the Rev. Thomas...
Monday, August 20, 2018 | General Convention
Nathaniel Ramanaden | Diocese of St. Asaph | bit.ly/2nOocrs After protests by CAMERA and the Simon Wiesenthal Center and coverage by Tablet, the Rt. Rev. Gayle E. Harris, Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts, has apologized for remarks she made during...
Monday, August 20, 2018 | General Convention
14 Pentecost, August 26 1 Kings 8:(1, 6, 10-11)22-30, 41-43 or Josh. 24:1-2a, 14-18 Ps. 84 or Ps. 84:1-6 or Ps. 34:15-22 Eph. 6:10-20 • John 6:56-69 Jimmy Baikovicius | Flickr “Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner...
Friday, August 17, 2018 | General Convention
The Sept. 2 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. TLC correspondent G. Jeffrey MacDonald writes in the cover story: Along the U.S.-Mexico border in West Texas, people accustomed to being largely invisible are trying extra hard to...
Friday, August 17, 2018 | General Convention
CUBA from Episcopal Arkansas on Vimeo. ✜ The Rt. Rev. Larry R. Benfield, Bishop of Arkansas, has joined in a cause championed by former Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori during General Convention: providing pensions for retired Episcopal clergy in Cuba....
Friday, August 17, 2018 | General Convention
The Rev. Sean W. Rowe, Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Provisional Bishop of Bethlehem, writes about the latest reports of sexual abuse: In the last several days, our fellow Christians in the Roman Catholic Church here in Pennsylvania have been shaken by the...
Friday, August 17, 2018 | General Convention
Appointments The Rev. Melinda Bobo is rector of St. Andrew’s in the Pines, Pinedale, WY. Michael Braxton of Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, is an elected trustee of General Theological Seminary in Manhattan. The Rev. Deacon Deborah Burns is a deacon at Trinity, Lawrence,...
Thursday, August 16, 2018 | General Convention
Alexandria Bordas of the Asheville Citizen Times reports: All Souls Cathedral announced the hiring of internationally recognized public speaker and spiritual leader the Rev. Naomi Tutu to focus on social issues in the Western North Carolina region. … Tutu is the...
Thursday, August 16, 2018 | General Convention
The Diocese of Costa Rica has elected the Rev. Orlando Gómez as its bishop. The election convention gathered July 14 but was soon forced to suspend the convention. A tropical storm caused the closure of national roads, preventing delegates in the Caribbean region from...
Thursday, August 16, 2018 | General Convention
The Pavilion at Grace at Grace Church in Providence has earned a 2018 Religious Art and Architecture Design Award for new facilities. Winners in the 2018 Faith & Form International Awards Competition will be featured in the December issue of Faith & Form and...
