A generous response to tragedy one hundred year ago continues to be felt today. A century ago, St Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wheeling, WV received a bequest from the Scott family grieving over the loss of their daughter with one stipulation; it must be used for children at Christmas.
A first hand account of the recent “Revival” held in the diocese of San Joaquin in central California
It is impossible to overstate how essential it is to manage donor relations (stewardship relations if you need to drape reality in ecclesial language) with great care and frequency. The only way to alienate a pledger is to treat them carelessly in correspondence.
The Archbishop of York removed his collar ten years ago in protest of Mugabe’s brutality in Zimbabwe and last Sunday put it back on during a BBC interview, now that Mugabe is gone.
Your campaign may be finished but many may be looking for an opportunity to give extra at this time of year
You are invited to participate in creating a global Advent calendar comprising the inspired responses from across the world
Representatives from Anglican churches in Angola, Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal, collectively called the Lusophone network, met in Portugal recently to discuss challenges and opportunities
A South Dakota newspaper finds a decline in Thanksgiving Day worship services locally. What is the practice in your parish?
We pop in on Fr. Ben’s car ride to Connecticut with his mother! Colin, Ben, and Ruth discuss practicing faith at home especially with children, bedtime prayer rituals, how to create sticky faith, tips for teaching faith at home in your congregation, and more.
And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans. mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it