The Episcopal Church has published this statement from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. It is reproduced in full below, and can be read on TEC’s page
This story has been amended and updated. The Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and the Very Reverend Randolph Marshall
Billy Graham, now 98 years old, prayed for eight inaugurations. He was a registered Democrat who distanced himself from both partisan politics and the religious
Last October, I flew to New Hampshire with two friends to attend workshop called Music that Makes Community, a nonprofit that holds workshops teaching paperless music. For us, it sounded like a way to bring more life and communion through music to my small congregation.
In conversation, in open and nonjudgmental listening, we link our arms, we link our lives, in love. We learn one another’s joys and sorrows. We find out what sort of help we each need and when we most need it.
The St. Louis Dispatch reports that the Choir of Men and Boys from Washington National Cathedral will be singing at the presidential inaugural next week.