Thursday, June 21, 2018
Los Rdos. Joseph Harmon y John Mennell, diputados de la Diócesis de Newark, muestran sus iPads asignados en préstamo a todos los diputados y obispos para la reunión de la Convención General en Salt Lake City en 2015. Los mismas contienen una “carpeta virtual” que...
Thursday, June 21, 2018
The July 1 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. This edition includes Kirk Petersen’s survey of the charms awaiting bishops and deputies in Austin: The travel site Expedia.com ranks Austin as the coolest city in the country,...
Thursday, June 21, 2018
The Rt. Rev. Richard Millard, former Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of California, died June 15. He was 103. He served as a bishop in the Diocese of California, the Diocese of El Camino Real, and the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe. The Rt. Rev. Marc...
Thursday, June 21, 2018
The Rt. Rev. Grant LeMarquand, former Anglican Bishop of the Horn of Africa within the Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa, will return to Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge in July. He will fill in for Wesley Hill, associate professor of...
Monday, June 18, 2018
[vimeo 274942511 w=750 h=422] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has recorded a brief video message on behalf of Episcopal Migration Ministries for World Refugee Day. Bishop Curry says: Our work with and for refugees began when we began to follow Jesus, to follow his way...
Friday, June 15, 2018
Diocese of Newark Deputies the Rev. Joseph Harmon and the Rev. John Mennell show off the loaner iPads assigned to all deputies and bishops for the Salt Lake City meeting of General Convention in 2015. They contain a “Virtual Binder,” electronically replacing most of...
Thursday, June 14, 2018
The Rev. Jane Johnson, left, and Bobbie Joy Amann, the lead missioner of Beloved Community’s Mission Action Team, enjoy a conversation with Jeffrey, a regular at the Saturday breakfasts. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service Editor’s note: This story is part of...
Monday, June 11, 2018
by Ann Ball, General Convention Deputy The Diocese of Louisiana was well represented with a full slate of deputies and representatives at the Province IV Synod and other meetings held at the Kanuga Conference Center in early June. Events prior to Synod The events...
Monday, June 11, 2018
While money for renovation are still being raised, one of the co-creators of The Divine Office at St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica, California, Deborah Kaufman Giordano, a healthcare recruiter, uses hymnals to make plastic card-table “desks”...
Friday, June 8, 2018
Una mujer palestina pasa el 1 de junio por el punto de control israelí en Belén, en la Cisjordania ocupada, para asistir a la oración del viernes en la mezquita de Al-Aqsa de Jerusalén, durante el mes de ayuno ritual de Ramadán. [Episcopal News Service] Un grupo de...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
A Palestinian woman makes her way June 1 through an Israeli checkpoint to attend Friday prayer of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Photo: Reuters [Episcopal News Service] A group of bishops...
Thursday, May 31, 2018
The core work of Appleton Episcopal Ministries’ Freedom School is to help struggling first-through-third-graders improve their reading. A 2015 Annie E. Casey Foundation study found that 60 percent of Georgia’s fourth-graders were not proficient readers. Photo:...
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Valerie Le Grande serves food to some of the visitors to the weekly community meal organized by Intercession Episcopal Church and Redeemer Lutheran Church, which worship together as Beloved Community in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News...
Friday, May 11, 2018
A highlight of General Convention 2018 will be The Episcopal Church Conversations (TEConversations), three innovative, inspirational and informative sessions featuring brief talks, videos and engaging interludes. TEConversations will be part of the three Joint...
Friday, May 4, 2018
[Episcopal News Service] The House of Bishops is inviting Episcopalians to “share reflections on sexual harassment, abuse and exploitation” ahead of a planned General Convention listening session titled “Pastoral Response to #MeToo.” A selection of the reflections,...
