
New book collects diverse voices of Mormon women
Blogger Jana Riess blogs at Religion News Service about the new book “Fresh Courage Take: New Directions by Mormon Women,” a collection of essays written

Blogger Jana Riess blogs at Religion News Service about the new book “Fresh Courage Take: New Directions by Mormon Women,” a collection of essays written

Bexley Seabury Episcopal Center in Columbus, Ohio, plans an afternoon convocation on racial reconciliation September 23, asking for reservations by September 9. The keynoter will

“Far more troubling than simple income inequality, our nation is being turned into a patchwork of concentrated advantage juxtaposed with concentrated disadvantage. The incomes and lives of generation after generation are being locked into terrifyingly divergent trajectories.”

The provincial delegate and the churchwide delegates will be able to attend the official UNCSW proceedings at the United Nations and will represent The Episcopal Church/Anglican Communion in their advocacy at the UN, including joint advocacy with the group Ecumenical Women.

The Word is a podcast that talks to prominent figures about their life and faith through the lens of their favorite Bible verses. Today, they talk to Katharine Welby-Roberts, who became known as the ABCD (Archbishop of Canterbury’s daughter), after her father’s election and her enthusiastic tweeting thereafter.

The St Louis American interviewed The Very Rev. Mike Kinman, dean of Christ Church Cathedral, about his enthusiastic support for the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Rev. Kinman

Mari Shibata, an independent journalist in Japan, writes about the bombing of Urakami Cathedral and 84 year old parishioner, Shigemi Fukahori , who survived the atomic bomb

NPR reports that Niloy Chakrabati Neel, a blogger who advocated for a secular society and criticized Islamic extremists, was murdered by members of Ansar-al-Islam, a group US

The Bishop of the Diocese of Port Moresby in the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea (ACPNG), the Rt Revd Denny Guka, wanted to accompany

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada held their church-wide assembly in Edmonton Alberta JUL 9 – 12. During the convention, they re-elected their National Bishop, the Revd Susan Johnson, to a 3rd four-year term. The convention also approved by 95% a motion to allow a lay person to be appointed to preside at communion.