50 Years in Northern Australia

Friday, August 10, 2018

Not many Anglican dioceses could round up every diocesan bishop who has ever served there. The Diocese of the Northern Territory, Australia’s youngest diocese, has had six bishops in its 50-year history, and they are all still alive. From Bishop Ken Mason to the...

Welby to Address U.N. Security Council

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Archbishop Justin Welby will become the first Archbishop of Canterbury to address the United Nations Security Council when he takes part in an open debate on Aug. 29. Karen Pierce, the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to the U.N., invited the archbishop to brief an open...

Offer a Mite

Thursday, August 9, 2018

The Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Assisting Bishop of San Diego, renews her call to support pensions for clergy in the Diocese of Cuba: Clergy in Cuba have no access to state pensions or any equivalent of social security, for their service to the church is not...

PB Praises Bishop Johnston

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Shannon Johnston listens as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry answers a question during a May 2017 news conference at Roslyn Conference Center in suburban Richmond, Virginia. | Mary Frances Schjonberg | Episcopal News Service Addressing members of the Diocese of...

Restoring a Remote Australian Church

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

It has been six years since a hymn rang out in Australia’s most remote parish church. All Saints Church, located on the far-eastern edge Torres Strait Island of Erub, has been crumbling away, but contractors are restoring the building to its former glory. Walter Lui,...

Appeal amid ‘Sudden, Severe Drought’

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Amid a crippling drought in New South Wales, Australia, the Archbishop of Sydney’s relief agency has launched an appeal to help affected communities. Archbishop Glenn Davies wants to provide resources through Anglican Aid for relief work in the north and west of the...

‘New Ways of Imagining God’

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

The Rev. Ruth Meyers of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific speaks with diaconal postulant Dani Gabriel in Sojourners about liturgical revision: Gabriel: Can you say a little more about how this work fits in with larger movements for social justice? Meyers: Some...

Keillor Describes Healing Prayer

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Radio storyteller and novelist Garrison Keillor attended a morning service Aug. 5 at St. Michael’s Church in Manhattan and was overcome with emotion. Keillor was fired by Minnesota Public Radio in November 2017 after it investigated multiple allegations of sexual...

Help for Leeds?

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Should financially stable dioceses step help those that need more funds? An announcement that the Diocese of Leeds must review salaries, make staff redundant, and close its pension program has triggered a national debate. Leeds is the Church of England’s youngest...

Tasmania Welcomes Property Concerns

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

The Diocese of Tasmania plans to sell churches to pay redress to child-abuse survivors, and has extended the deadline for responses. The diocese, located in the island state to the south Australian mainland, originally set September as the deadline to complete...

Fire Relief for Californians

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Episcopal Relief & Development and the Diocese of Northern California are providing emergency support to communities struck by the Carr Fire that began on July 23. The support includes rental assistance, short-term storage for recovered belongings, food, gasoline,...

Tutudesks for Africa

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

The Diocese of Atlanta’s Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing has announced its initial goal to donate 1,308 Tutudesks to students in Africa: In partnership with the United Nations Special Envoy for Education, the Tutudesk provides the answer to the classroom desk...

New Bishop for Ecuador Litoral

Monday, August 6, 2018

Christobal Leon Lozano | Glenda McQueen Lynette Wilson reports for Episcopal News Service: Cristobal Leon Lozano was elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Ecuador Litoral on Aug. 4. He will succeed to the Rt. Rev. Alfredo Morante España, who has been the diocesan...

‘No Kid Sleeps on the Floor’

Monday, August 6, 2018

Members of St. Michael’s Church in Racine, Wisconsin, have formed a chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace to provide beds and bedding for children between the ages of 3 and 17. Sleep in Heavenly Peace, based in Twin Falls, Idaho, had only two chapters in 2017. Since the...