Author: Episcopal Cafe

Jim Friedrich, who blogs at the Religious Imagineer has put together these intercessions for use during the season of Advent.

A response to the death of John Allen Chau on Sentinel island. Instead of discussing the motives and morality of the slain missionary the author focuses on what the progressive Christian church can learn from this sad affair.

We look at the diocese of London, in the Church of England to understand their astounding growth and discern what might the lessons be that could be transferred to our contexts here

In this third installment we look at the theology of mission and the importance of context

In this letter-to-the-editor, Zealy Helms responds to the news from Albany and Bishop Loves directive on marriage equality there, holding that there should be no barriers to our loving response to the world

Look, Jesus says. Look at that woman. See her situation, see who she is. Don’t just see what she is doing; see what is being done to her. She is being exploited by the injustice of an economy which takes everything from her and gives nothing back. But do you notice how, instead of acting like a helpless victim, she is taking as much charge over the situation as she can?

In this second installment of our five part series, we delve into why churches undertake church planting in the first place and how these might or might not fit into the ethos of the Episcopal Church.

How we take care and accept each other is the real stewardship that will grow our church communities.  There are funerals every day on this planet and yet, the one funeral we all need to attend we don’t.  We need to bury yesterday and let the “status quo” rest in peace. 

The Living Church recently published a piece bemoaning the emergence of episcopal elections where all the candidates were women. In this satirical response, Priest, podcaster, and author Jordan Haynie Ware imagines the thought process of a sympathizer with that article’s premise.