Ashby to Lead High Desert School for Ministry

The Rev. Canon Lucinda Ashby of Idaho will serve as dean of the newly formed for the newly formed High Desert School for Ministry, a joint project of the dioceses of Eastern Oregon and Idaho. The school, a three-year local formation program for ordained ministry in...

50 Years in Northern Australia

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...

Forward Day By Day – August 10, 2018

While I like to consider myself an educated and sophisticated Christian, I’ve noticed something about my Christian role models: They are ordinary people living extraordinary lives.Take Ernie, who is in his eighties. No one would blame him for slipping into a quiet...

Welby to Address U.N. Security Council

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

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...

Forward Day By Day – August 9, 2018

When I was growing up in the early 1980s, many parent-types were concerned about the influence rock musician Prince was having on teenagers. With his provocative clothing and the explicit lyrics of his songs, people asked if anything good could come out of this...

PB Praises Bishop Johnston

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

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’

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...

Forward Day By Day – August 8, 2018

What do you think is the greatest gift you’ll leave behind? Will you leave a legacy of children, financial gifts that will bless others, or works or ideas that will shape future generations? Peter reminds the crowd that they are indeed inheritors of great blessings...