Episcopal clergy and congregations are participating in a two-day conference in Davenport, Iowa, to train medical personnel on how to identify victims of human trafficking.
UPDATE: The Diocese of Easton has an announcement, and is adding information. Update from Bishop Shand at 2:15 pm: The Rev. David Dingwall has been
In news from across the pond, it is Stir Up Sunday, the Sunday before the first Sunday in Advent. Project Britain explains:
File under dealing effectively with poverty is hard. Brookings has issued a report by Grover J. Whitehurst on a study of Tennessee’s Voluntary Pre-K Program
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The Sunday Mail interviewed Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, about energy price hikes in the UK. Welby is a former oil industry executive.
An American Jewish leader and Pope Francis have corresponded on where God can be found in the Holocaust. The Washington Post:
An employee’s loss of incentive to stay in a plan designed with the employee’s profession in mind is an effect that reasonable people might agree is undesirable. The question is, couldn’t employers of other kinds of workers make equally compelling arguments for health plans tailored for their employees’ needs? If so, shouldn’t the church as servant to the community be pursuing a comprehensive fix? Or, if none exists, no fix at all?
Marriage equality has come to New Jersey. Friday state judge Mary Jacobson ordered the state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples beginning October 21.
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori announced to the House of Bishops that the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will be visiting The Episcopal Church in April 2014 for personal visit with her. … During his first 18 months in office, the Archbishop plans to visit all of his fellow Primates around the Anglican Communion. His desire is to build personal and professional bonds, understand the Primates’ work in its local context, and lay foundations for collaboration over the coming years.