May 8, 2013
The Rev. Richard Kunz, former executive director of El Hogar, a home for boys and girls in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Charlie Nakash, an...
[Refugee Council USA press release] On the eve of the U.S. Senate’s first markup of the bipartisan immigration reform bill, a wide array of faith leaders are urging legislators to ensure that comprehensive immigration reform upholds the United States’ proud history and tradition of protecting and welcoming refugees, asylum-seekers, and those fleeing persecution.
Rabbi Steve Gutow, president of the...
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[Episcopal News Service] Los antiguos celtas describieron a Iona como un “lugar sutil”, donde se alzaba el velo entre el cielo y la tierra, y donde uno podría tener un atisbo de lo divino.
Durante siglos, los peregrinos han viajado hasta esta pequeña isla de la...
[Episcopal Diocese of Washington] This blog is the first a series on ministry with young adults that the Episcopal Diocese of Washington will be featuring in May.
Like many of you, I’ve read the studies that document the decline in church attendance among young adults. And while I am aware of the anxiety this can often create, I am uncertain as to how helpful anxiety is at resolving a problem. Almost every Sunday, I visit a different parish within our...
[Episcopal News Service] In one historic week, the Episcopal Church participated in two significant ecumenical events about climate change.
On April 27, 2013, the Climate Revival in downtown Boston gathered clergy and hundreds of Christians from across New England to participate in a morning and afternoon worship service in two historic churches – Old South Church and Trinity Church. Billed as “an ecumenical festival to embolden the renewal of Creation,” the Climate...
[Anglican Communion News Service] The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, the official body appointed by the two Communions to engage in theological dialogue, has held the third meeting of its new phase (ARCIC III), at the Mosteiro de Sao Bento, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (29 April–7 May 2013). This is the first time in its forty year history that ARCIC has met in Latin America, and, indeed, in the southern hemisphere.
...[Anglican Communion News Service] The president of South Sudan has appointed the archbishop of the Episcopal Church of Sudan to chair the national reconciliation committee “trying to heal the mental wounds”’ in the world’s newest nation after 40 years of war.
Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul was appointed by Salva Kiir, who was facing many questions from the public and the media about why the he had earlier suspended the “much-needed” national reconciliation...
The Trinity Window is pieced together in Christchurch’s Transitional Cathedral. Photo...
May 7, 2013
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs press release] An agreement has been completed between the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society (DFMS) and Lyceum Kennedy French American School to lease the Second Floor of the Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Avenue in New York City.
Currently located at 225 E 43rd St in New York City, this lease provides an expansion of space for the school....