“Jesus understood money. He spoke of it from time to time and always in the sense that money is not something that should be the be-all and end-all of things. Wealth is to be shared, not hoarded and not paid out to accomplish something criminal or even slightly criminal.”
Our journey out of bondage into freedom often makes us anxious. As we move toward the Promised Land, we find that we have sometimes fallen in love with those things that hold us down and harm us.
In a letter posted on the diocesan website this morning, Bishop Johnston announced his intention to resign and retire. “After many months of intense prayer
Then Jesus said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.’
The Rev. Canon E. Mark Stevenson has been appointed Canon for Ministry Within the Episcopal Church, a role on the Presiding Bishop’s staff. Stevenson currently serves as executive director of Episcopal Migration Ministries. He will assume his new role on September 1 and will continue working out of the Episcopal Church offices in New York City.
A story in MyChamplainValley.com this week announces that the Episcopal Church in Vermont is within $50,000 of its $818,000 goal in the protection of 163
“The life of faith is about living from this perspective of abundance. It is trusting that even when things feel and look impossible, “way opens,” to use a phrase of the Quakers.”
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry is resting comfortably following surgery on Tuesday, July 31.
The churches that broke away from the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas more than nine years ago have filed a petition to review the April 2018 decision of an appellate court which found in favor of members of the Diocese loyal to the Episcopal Church.