Pandemic brings deeper creativity, meaning to 2021 Mardi Gras celebrations

Friday, February 12, 2021

Katherine Marshall hands Lenten surprise bags to a parish family at a drive-by pickup at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on Feb. 7. Photo: Liz Beal Kidd. [Episcopal News Service] At last year’s Mardi Gras, many Episcopalians in New Orleans and beyond...

UTO grants help feeding ministries expand to meet needs of communities hit by pandemic

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

[Episcopal News Service] A Caring Place didn’t start as a feeding ministry. When the upstart nonprofit in Lexington, Kentucky, was founded last year by members of two closely aligned Episcopal and Lutheran congregations, its primary mission was to alleviate feelings...

New Orleans Episcopal housing initiative fosters homeownership and wealth generation

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

First-time homeowner Evelyn Carlton, once a homeless veteran, sits on the front porch of the home she was able to purchase through Jericho Road. Photo: Courtesy of Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative [Episcopal News Service] With the support of the Jericho Road...

For a Louisiana priest who’s no stranger to disasters, COVID-19 is ‘the moment we’ve been trained for’

Monday, March 23, 2020

Editor’s note: This story is the first in a series about how priests and lay members across The Episcopal Church are caring for one another during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have an inspiring pastoral-care story to share, send it to news@episcopalchurch.org....

New Orleans church, home to ‘murder board,’ eyes new tribute to victims in stars on ceiling

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

St. Anna’s Episcopal Church in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, has posted the names of homicide victim outside the church since 2007. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service] Though far from a good year, 2019 was a...

Episcopal Church’s advocacy for LGBTQ people pre-dates Stonewall uprising

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Members of Washington National Cathedral marched in the June 9 Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. Photo: Danielle E. Thomas/Washington National Cathedral [Episcopal News Service] The full inclusion of LGBTQ people in the life of The Episcopal Church had barely...

Iraqi Christians, chicken farmers rebuild their lives in the Nineveh Plains

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Ghazwan holding chicks in a farm previously destroyed by ISIS. Photos courtesy of International Christian Concern and Stand With Iraqi Christians [Episcopal News Service] At a cost of $5 each, chicks are helping Iraq’s Christian chicken farmers rebuild their...

New Anglican Communion budget formula has ‘extreme potential impact’ on The Episcopal Church

Monday, May 6, 2019

Episcopal Church ACC member Rosalie Ballentine of the Diocese of the Virgin Islands asks May 4 for more information about the new formula for calculating provincial contributions to the Inter-Anglican Budget. Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service...

#MeToo, baptismal ministry and theological task forces begin triennial work

Friday, March 22, 2019

Katherine Karr-Cornejo of the Diocese of Spokane helps her colleagues on the Task Force to Study Sexism in TEC & Develop Anti-Sexism Training sort through some of the work the group did earlier in the meeting. Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service...

‘Communion Across Difference’ group continues church’s on-going LGBTQ-inclusion conversation

Thursday, March 21, 2019

The Rev. Jordan Hylden, Diocese of Dallas canon theologian, suggests that the Task Force for Communion Across Difference ought to aim to craft “a generational peace” over the church’s differences about human sexuality. Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News...

La Iglesia Episcopal anuncia el lanzamiento de Juntos de Nuevo: Campaña de Pensiones de Cuba

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

[27 de febrero de 2019] En un espíritu de bienvenida y reconciliación con la Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba (ECC), La Iglesia Episcopal anunció hoy el lanzamiento de Juntos de Nuevo: Campaña de Pensiones de Cuba, que tiene como objetivo recaudar fondos para proporcionar...

Presiding Bishop urges Episcopalians to talk with diocesan bishop about same-sex marriage issues

Monday, February 4, 2019

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry told clergy in the Diocese of Florida Feb. 4 to work hard to stay in relationship with Bishop John Howard even if they disagree with his opposition to same-sex marriage. During a public conversation between Curry...

Episcopal Church Constitution and Canons 2018 now available for download or purchase

Friday, January 25, 2019

The Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, the Executive Officer of the General Convention, announces that the 2018 edition of the Constitution and Canons together with the Rules of Order, containing all updates from the 79th General Convention, is now available in English and...

Church, wider-culture continue to address sexual harassment, abuse in #MeToo age

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Central New York Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe, left; Central Pennsylvania Bishop Audrey Scanlon, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, Olympia Bishop Greg Rickel and House of Bishops Vice President and El Camino Real Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves pray July 4 during the House of...

‘Today feels like a miracle’ for same-sex couples in two Dallas parishes

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Some of the 15 couples renewing their vows and having their marriages blessed Jan. 19 at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in north Dallas sing during the evening service. Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service –...