Year: 2022

Executive Council and the Pension Fund agree to regular consultations

the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church and the Church Pension Fund (CPF) Board of Trustees will hold at least four consultations between the 80th and 81st General Conventions (2022 and 2024, respectively). These gatherings will address mutual policy concerns posed by changing demographics, changing understandings of church in society, and changing expectations of and for clergy—including current and retired lay employees of The Episcopal Church.  

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Time for New Ventures

“In the days and months ahead this is the image I want to hold close, and one I share with you: God’s people bound together not by anything we have done but by who we are as God’s beloved children. We are loved and basking in the light of the risen Christ, now and forever more. Amen.”

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Earth, Turtles and the Feast Day of St. Mark

” That fishing buddy of Jesus’s was a man who became committed like our turtles, to depositing his clutch, determined that his story of Jesus would live on forever and in doing so saving the world, just like the Loggerhead.”

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Thomas the Apostle to India

“I am in sympathy with the more ancient church, even though their doctrines and practices are foreign to me in many ways.  There is something quite compelling about a church whose roots reach deeply and uniquely through both Indian and Palestinian history.”

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Mockingbird and the Spirit

“Maybe I should try to be as conscious of the Spirit as I am the annoying bird. Whether the Spirit is trying to move me away from something or toward something else, I need to pay attention. It’s as simple–and as complicated—as that.”

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Prayer for Easter Thursday

“Spirit of Peace, spread the wings of your redemption and grace over all who call upon You our exalted Lord,our Loving Shepherd, as we pray.”

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