Presiding Bishop Michael Curry invites Episcopal churches to join a nationwide bell-ringing to remember and honor those Africans first brought to the country as enslaved people 400 years ago this August.
We seek out the company of one another, wherever we may be, because we cannot pass the Peace alone. Because the Sacraments are meant to be shared. Because love is communicated in company, with a word, or a gesture, or a look (or a pile of kittens).
The Diocese of Arizona and Grace St Paul’s Episcopal Church face a lawsuit over allegations that credible accusations of sexual abuse involving a now-deceased priest were ignored.
It remains unclear where, how, or when the ramped-up ICE raids predicted by the President’s twitter account will materialize; but in the meantime, churches are taking their members’ fears seriously, and offering sanctuary, solace, and counsel where they can.
The Vestry minutes included in the recent return from the Library of Congress cover the establishment of the parish in 1732 until the disestablishment of the colonial church in 1785. George Washington was elected to the Vestry in 1762.
What makes a journey into a pilgrimage? These past two weeks I have been (as one wildly privileged) travelling in Britain, visiting family and taking
“As a Christian, I believe that worship is primarily intended to glorify God, and may have misinterpreted your Evensong as an actual worship service, at which my son’s expressions must surely be pleasing to God, the experience of other worshipers being secondary.”
Calling the Holy Spirit into a wholly unsuspecting congregation Sunday seemed almost reckless. So I was nervous. But God was, as God is, faithful, and merciful.
The complaint says [Church Insurance] “has enabled and aided and abetted at least one Lawrence Parish Entity … by wrongfully paying and misdirecting insurance proceeds to it for the known purpose of funding their litigation efforts against TECSC and TEC.”
Throughout it all, Bishop Love maintained his theme of a Bishop, a Diocese, and Christianity itself under attack. In one breathtaking passage, he lifted up the example of Christians martyred by ISIS in Libya in 2015, and compared their murders to the kinds of attacks he sees conservative Christianity enduring in the West.