Dr Julie McDonnell was a novice to Campanology, the art of bell-ringing. She is from Sussex England and in DEC 2015 she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She has a blood cancer, one of 137 different kinds of blood cancer, chronic myeloid leukemia. A person in good health would find bell-ringing challenging.
On 10 JAN we published the story, What can we learn from our megachurch neighbors? Today we have a story about one such large church. This church is Denver Community Church. The Elder Team of this church has been on a journey of discernment for the last 18 months regarding the inclusion of LGBT Christians in the life of their congregation. Many Episcopal/Anglican parishes, dioceses and provinces could learn from this example.
MAR 5 is Episcopal Relief & Development Sunday. To help your congregation prepare for this special Sunday and for the Lenten journey, we encourage you to order the 2017 Lenten Meditations guide.
The adopted son of gay dads took to Instagram recently to voice the fear and concern that he feels with a Trump presidency.
Folks in the US were shocked when Donald Trump was elected. His supporters were jubilant and exhilarated that he had actually won. Hillary Clinton’s supporters were dumbfounded and devastated that she had lost. The results were not what had been predicted. News analysts were perplexed at how wrong they were.
The Diocese of Vermont Diocesan Center has a new orchard in the backyard. If you look out one of the back windows you overlook the 35 tracker- arrays of the Rock Point Solar Farm (sometimes they refer to it as a solar orchard.) The Diocese of Vermont has a beautiful, large piece of property purchased in 1855 at Rock Point in Burlington VT.
A large number of pilgrims on the Way of St James are Anglicans. However, when they complete the pilgrimage at the Cathedral, along with the other non-Catholic pilgrims, they become just spectators. They aren’t allowed to participate in the Cathedral services or to receive communion. The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church would like to change that.
The Revd Chad Tanaka Pack shares his own story of the long road to ordination as a minister of word & sacrament in the Reformed Church in America.
In an article in yesterday’s Washington Post, Bishop Budde was quoted as stating that Donald Trump had requested that there be no preaching at the service.
The Most Revd Brown Turei was 92 years old. He was one of the three three Archbishops & Primates in the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia an Anglican Church of three cultural streams (tikanga.) Archbishop Turei represented the Maori tikanga of the ACANZ&P.