Fifty years ago this August 20, Daniels, a young Episcopal seminarian, was murdered in Hayneville, Ala., while participating in the civil rights movement. The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia will remember and reflect on this remarkable man on Sunday, August 16 — the Sunday nearest the anniversary of his death.
A little known office in the Episcopal Church is the Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. The most recent Custodian, the 8th Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer, the Revd Canon Gregory M Howe, has recently retired from his position.
Episcopalians formerly associated with the Church of St James the Great, a mission of the Diocese of Los Angeles which has been recently disbanded by the Rt Revd J Jon Bruno, bishop diocesan of Los Angeles, have filed charges against Bishop Bruno under Title IV.
The Revd Robert Jeffries is the senior pastor of 1st Baptist Church, Dallas. 1st Baptist is a Southern Baptist mega-church in downtown Dallas with between
The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is the Anglican Church in New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and the Cook Islands. It is different from any other Anglican church in the Anglican Communion in that it is a church organized to represent three cultural streams or tikanga.
The Boy Scouts of America have taken the first of two steps required to lift the ban on GLBT scout leaders. Yesterday, 13 JUL 215, the BSA 17 member executive committee voted unanimously to approve a new policy to allow local troops and a troop’s sponsoring organization to approve GLBT adult leaders.
Looking to the future, the Revd Gregory Whitaker and his two congregations are building for the future. The newly envisioned Church of Christ Our Peace will have a nave seating 300 and a social hall large enough for 200. Both congregations would then be able to hold simultaneous services when needed. The Revd Whitaker has been in Cambodia for two years. Each year the size of the congregation has doubled. He has reason to think larger.
Hoping to promote interfaith understanding and communication between disparate communities, the diocese aims to raise world-wide awareness of modern day human trafficking, as well as, share the East African historiu-2y of participation in the slave trade.
As part of the activities of the 78th General Convention, Episcopalians attending the convention, as well as members from local Dio Utah parishes, joined together on 29 JUN to participate in a service project at various LDS Welfare Square facilities.
On 15 May 2015, the Baylor University Board of Regents quietly approved a new policy stating, “Baylor will be guided by the biblical understanding that human sexuality is a gift from God and that physical sexual intimacy is to be expressed in the context of marital fidelity. Thus, it is expected that Baylor students, faculty and staff will engage in behaviors consistent with this understanding of human sexuality.”