NBC’s Today show reported on the restoration work that has begun at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port au Prince, Haiti. The murals depicting Haitians in traditional Biblical scenes were created in the 1940’s and are being restored with help from the Smithsonian Institution.
Work has moved from rescue to recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand and the surrounding communities after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit the region on February 22nd.
Steve Farley, a member of the state legislature in Arizona and an Episcopalian, talks about the importance of conversation especially in a political environment where religion is used to divide people and stir up anger.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life counted up news stories in the US again in 2010 and found that that there were slightly more stories concerned religion in the secular media than in 2009.
On Friday, Fourth Judicial District Judge Gregory R. Werner sentenced ACNA priest the Rev. Donald Armstrong to four years probation and to pay $99,247 restitution for his Alford plea to one count of misdemeanor theft of funds from the Colorado Springs church where he once served as rector.
Israel’s Interior Ministry has revoked the permit for the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, The Rt Revd Suheil Dawani, to live in Jerusalem, and has refused requests to reinstate it, in spite of protests by Anglican authorities in the West specifically the United States.
A former Episcopalian tells fellow conservative Roman Catholics that they should take the Ordinariate seriously in North America. To prove his point, he plays with numbers and even made a Google map.
The World Council of Churches has decided to scrap the title of their main legislative body. “The Central Committee” sounded a little too Soviet for a worldwide gathering of Protestant and Orthodox churches.
Bishop Price of Pittsburgh has issued a pastoral direction guiding discussions between parishes that wish to leave the Episcopal Church and the diocese, offering a way forward for resolving property issues, including an 8-point overview of what would be involved in those conversations.
Members of the Diocese of Fort Worth told Executive Council about their mission, ministry, and shared stories of hope, healing, and reconciliation. They described the long journey ahead to rebuild their diocese.