… intentionally, purposely, and liturgically rededicate ourselves to the way of Jesus, the work of racial reconciliation, the work of healing and dismantling everything that wounds and divides us, the work of becoming God’s Beloved Community
Damaged in 2011 earthquake, figuring out what to do with Christchurch cathedral has been bogged down in legal disputes and community resistance to the diocese’s plans
An electoral college of the Church in Wales will meet in the small town of Llandrindod Wells next month to choose the province’s next archbishop and primate. They will succeed the former Bishop of Llandaff, Barry Morgan, who retired in January.
the Texas legislature adjourned its special session without passing a so-called “bathroom bill,” which threatened to write discrimination against transgender people into state law.
“I think it is the responsible thing for us to do,” Bishop Lawrence Provenzano said.
Sir Henry Wood, the founder of the Proms, London’s legendary classical music festival, is buried there, but the church has decided to oust the classical
The bathroom bill may be dead for now, but the fight over transgender rights in Texas is just beginning. The legislation could be resurrected during the next legislative session in 2019.
White people, speak out against white supremacy. It is we white people who must speak to white supremacists to make clear that we do not agree with them, that they do not speak for the “white race.” Our silence will be heard as complicity. – Bishops Johnston, Goff and Gulick
UPDATED: Response by St James the Great:
In prayerful discernment, we opened our hearts to a variety of possibilities for reconciliation in Christ and healing for St. James and our whole community. But Bishop Bruno has entered into a binding contract to sell the property. The buyer has the legal right to expect the seller to honor the contract. Much as we might wish it were otherwise, we do not believe that it would be in the interests of the diocese or consistent with our fiduciary responsibilities to endorse any steps leading to breaching or threatening to breach an enforceable contract that could lead to further expense and litigation.
Episcopal bishops and faith leaders across the country have spoken out and named the dangerous racist ideology behind Saturday’s violence.