June 19, 2013
[Episcopal Diocese of Washington] This blog is part of a series from the Episcopal Diocese of Washington on LGBT and faith topics in honor of LGBT Pride Month.
With a mixture of relief and deep joy, parishioners from St. George’s Episcopal Church in Glenn Dale gathered in our sanctuary on the evening of November 7, 2012 to celebrate the passage of Question 6—the ballot initiative in Maryland that affirmed the right of same-sex couples to marry. We had planned a...
June 18, 2013
Canon Lucinda Ashby tackles weeds in the Puerto Rican jungle.
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[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs press release] There’s still time to register for the 2013 Conference of The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS) on July 12 and 13 at the Episcopal Commons of Utah in Salt Lake City, Diocese of Utah.
And, if traveling isn’t possible for in-person...
[Episcopal Public Policy Network] The House of Representatives will vote this week on a farm bill (HR 1947) that would dictate funding for food, farm, and nutrition programs over the next five years.
The farm bill affects people from rural America to our inner cities, people in our local communities and vulnerable populations around the world. A responsible, effective farm bill can strengthen nutrition programs for low-income Americans, encourage economic growth in...
June 17, 2013
[Lambeth Palace press release] The Archbishop of Canterbury has welcomed the award of OBE to his former Representative to the Holy See, the Very Revd Canon David Richardson.Canon...
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs press release] The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies, presented the House of Deputies medal to Sally Johnson, Esq. during the 2013 Episcopal Chancellors Network Conference
Johnson, who recently retired as vice president of risk management and education for the Church Pension Group, was awarded...
El Buen Pastor, Durham, NC
Diocese of North Carolina
16 June 2013The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal ChurchHas anyone here ever worked as a shepherd, or known someone who did? My husband and I kept goats for a long time, but never sheep. We did get to know a shepherd one summer in Nevada. We never actually saw him, but we did see the messages he carved on trees as he followed the...
June 14, 2013
- [Episcopal Public Policy Network] To fight domestic child sex trafficking is to recognize “the spark of divinity that is in every person,” Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi announced as she signed the “Our Daughters are Not for Sale Proclamation” and denounced the scourge of buying and selling American children for sex and labor. Leader Pelosi was joined by Republican and Democratic women of Congress and young American survivors of sex slavery to demand an...
[Pathways press release] The Episcopal and Evangelical Lutheran churches are coming together to form a first-of-its-kind Christian community in Athens.
Pathways: An Episcopal/Lutheran Community will begin meeting for communion Sunday evenings at 6 p.m. at the Wilkes Family Chapel at Concord University starting June 30.
The inter-denominational community is the joint efforts of St. Luke Lutheran Church and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, both located in...
June 13, 2013
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs press release] The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of The Episcopal Church House of Deputies, will visit the Anglican Church in Mexico’s VII General Synod on June 14 and 15. The synod will elect a new primate, who will succeed Bishop Carlos Touché-Porter, primate and bishop of the Diocese of Mexico, whose term as primate is concluding.
President Jennings was invited to attend the synod by Touché-Porter and the...