The Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, Secretary of the General Convention, announced that The Episcopal Church has been invited to send delegates to the 2021 Assembly of the World Council of Churches, scheduled for September 8 – 16, 2021 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The theme for the 2021 Assembly is: “Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.”
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The Baltimore Sun reported yesterday on a congregation in Baltimore which is actively working to understand its role in promoting slavery in the 19th century.
“More than once I have spoken to women who have been attacked by Episcopalians on Twitter so savagely that they have received anonymous death and rape threats. And more than once I have seen posts suggesting that these kinds of tactics will be present at General Convention in 2021.”
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From the seminary’s press release (new link added): Virginia Theological Seminary recognizes that enslaved persons worked on the campus, and that even after slavery ended,
The Episcopal News Service reported two losses in the Episcopal Church in the first few days of September: The Rev. Alison Cheek, one of the
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Earlier this week, a South Carolina judge denied The Episcopal Church in South Carolina’s motion to dismiss a betterments case brought against them by breakaway
A series of events the past two weekends, Episcopalians have commemorated and remembered the beginning of the slave trade in what would become the United