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Hurricane Harvey and our Mission
Bishop Andy Doyle writes Let me begin by thanking all of our brothers and sisters around the world who are holding us up in prayer. We are grateful for the hope you lend us at this time of disaster and...
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113 year old stained glass windows restored in Alaska mission
St. James Episcopal Mission in Tanana, AK has had its 113 year old stained glass windows restored. The four windows had been damaged severely by the shifting logs of the mission. They were originally...
View ArticlePress release: Awards of the Constable Fund grants
Below is a press release issued today by the Public Affairs Office: Executive Council awards Episcopal Church Constable Fund Grants The Episcopal Church Executive Council, at its January meeting in...
View ArticleEpiscopal church planters and missions conference slated for May
A new conference designed to help individuals discern a call to seed and lead new Episcopal communities, church plants, and missions is coming in May. Via the Office of Public Affairs: The Episcopal...
View ArticleAn Anglo-Catholic future in the Episcopal Church
Derek Olsen reflects on what an Anglo-Catholic future looks like in the Episcopal Church. He notes that a prominent Anglo-Catholic parish, St. Paul’s K Street in Washington, DC, “has gone through a...
View ArticleHow about “health” instead of “growth?”
Laurie Brock is not a gardener, but she notices that we in the Church love to talk about “growth.” She if this distracts us from the health of our little corners of God’s garden. Dirty Sexy Ministry:...
View Article“God is not a microwave.”
The sermon delivered at the Chapel of Good Shepherd at the General Seminary today by Hershey Andrael Mallette of the class of 2015: Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations baptizing them in...
View ArticleControversy in Church of England over plan to prepare leaders and grow churches
Archbishop Welby wants to stem the coming tidal wave of decline in the Church of England while, at the same, prepare Bishops and senior clerics for leading church institutions. His approach has created...
View ArticleA cross-border ministry of the Episcopal-Anglican kind
The Anglican Journal profiles the ministry of one of three Episcopal priests serving parishes in Newfoundland. Growing up in Lunenburg, Mass., of Finnish Lutheran and French-Canadian Roman Catholic...
View ArticleCentenary Church helps a barber help others
Anthony Ponder cutting hair / Photo from Medium story Grant Blankenship for Georgia Public Broadcasting interviewed Anthony Ponder, who became a barber like his deceased father, who was murdered when...
View ArticleExactly how big is the Anglican Communion?
A study published in the Journal of Anglican Studies says that the Anglican Communion is probably smaller that we think. The usual number is that there are 80 million Anglicans in the 38 provinces...
View ArticleCanadian primate robbed at gunpoint during a visit to a parish in Brazil
The Archbishop of the Anglican Church in Canada was visiting Brazil, and while visiting a mission in an impoverished neighborhood, was robbed at gunpoint. He says, that while shaken, the incident...
View ArticleSmall churches and the loss of social bonds in rural communities
The social bonds of rural communities in Iowa…including churches…are crumbling. Here is how some communities in Iowa are responding. Lyz Lenz describes the Plymouth County Historical Museum, housed in...
View ArticleOn premature reports of the church’s suicide
Bishop Dan Edwards of Nevada responds to a recent blog post about the suicide of mainline churches that has been making the rounds. Bishop Dan’s Blog: My real problem is not really with Hedges’...
View ArticleSec. Gen. of the Anglican Communion speaks on women and girls
The Most Rev. Josiah Atkins Idowu-Fearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, said March 16 that Anglican and Episcopal women must continue – and redouble – their work to change the fate of...
View ArticleACC Directors give reports on worldwide ministries
Though some people think the money the Episcopal Church gives the Anglican Communion is directly passed on to Provinces, most of it goes to the work of coordinating worldwide ministries. The role of...
View Article“Voluntourism” mocked by satirical Instagram users with Barbie photos
The new pop culture term, “Voluntourism”, is a portmanteau coined to describe the earnest but ineffectual approach many take to volunteering in foreign nations. Two women who identify as former ‘white...
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Where does the Church belong?
This piece originally appeared at Seven Whole Days By Scott Gunn A few days ago, I took part in a silly Facebook discussion about, among other things, the proper position of the altar in churches....
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A note of inspiration from your closet atheist church secretary:
I’m a late twenty-something mother of one, married to my high school sweetheart. After obtaining my bachelor’s degree I worked long hours in corporate America, enthralled by all of the opportunities...
View ArticleBuffalo churches declare themselves Sanctuary Churches for undocumented...
As sweeping arrests are made of undocumented immigrants across the country, churches are stepping up to offer sanctuary to those at risk. Two churches in Buffalo, NY, made a declaration on Friday that...
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