
Subversive Undercroft #212: The Episcopate
We check in on the effects of hurricane Ida at Lisa’s church before we begin talking about the ministry of bishops.
We check in on the effects of hurricane Ida at Lisa’s church before we begin talking about the ministry of bishops.
“Help me, God, to speak with goodness.”
Exploring the role that music plays within church services. What music in the Episcopal Church means and its history. How music can engage kids in the church.
David and Charlette discuss the story of Jesus’ conversation with the disciples about his identity and his rebuke of Peter
A conversation about Teenagers in Pop Culture
Luci and Jordan are back and exploring the lives and legacies of the saints
During the intervening months, we created this garden as a place of gathering, a place of life in the midst of death. Friends donated plants “in honor of their animal companions and, in this strange way of the pandemic, attended Alvie’s memorial there – both in person (outdoors and physically distanced) and via Zoom. Holding the thresholds of death and life in one time and one place that day, we dedicated the garden and also offered a welcoming ritual for our rescue pit bull, Sophie Grace.”
“It is with great sadness that we announced the death of the Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong. He died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday morning,” St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, where Spong had once been pastor, announced on Sunday (Sept 12).
I cannot recommend the continuation of a tenure in which I fear that more people will be made to feel diminished and discouraged. – Professor Iain Torrance, reporting to the Scottish Episcopal Church College of Bishops
Saturday the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed the Rev. Megan as its first openly transgender bishop. Sunday the ELCA installed the Rev. Brenda Bos as its first openly lesbian bishop.