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70th ordination anniversary of Florence Li Tim-Oi

January 24, 2014 No Comments

Seventy years ago Florence Li Tim-Oi was the first woman to be ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion.

Ceasefire signed in South Sudan

January 24, 2014 No Comments

Episcopalians who have mission partnerships with Anglicans in South Sudan are relieved at the news that the government of South Sudan and rebels loyal to the country’s ousted former

vice president signed a cease-fire agreement on Thursda

Taking council in Virginia

January 23, 2014 1 Comment

There has been a trend in recent years to use diocesan conventions in the Episcopal Church more as opportunities for training and community building than

Petition urges Archbishops of Canterbury, York to oppose Nigeria’s new anti-gay law

January 23, 2014 1 Comment

An online petition urges the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to speak out against the draconian new anti-gay legislation in Nigeria that has led to

Church words

January 23, 2014 25 Comments

As some readers know, I make my living as a communications consultant, working primarily within the church. I frequently write and edit copy intended for

Another voice in exploring public school sex ed classes

January 22, 2014 No Comments

Conor Friedersdorf wrote on the debate over sex education in public schools in The Atlantic last week, in a piece titled (sure to get readers’

NH Bishop speaks on state’s death penalty hearings

January 22, 2014 1 Comment

The Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld, Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, testified at the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee hearing in favor

AC shocked by West Africa Primate’s sudden death

January 22, 2014 1 Comment

Jan Butter with additional reporting by Bellah Zulu, ACNS:

Presiding Bishop preaches on racial reconciliation

January 22, 2014 No Comments

The particular challenge of Episcopalians here and across the Church is to acknowledge our complicity in the institution of slavery – that the Church here in Louisiana began and continued as a wealthy, white proclaimer of a gospel of obedience and loyalty to a system of domination.

The rabbi is a pioneer

January 21, 2014 No Comments

Rabbi Buchdahl, who is 41, will become one of only a few women—and likely the only Asian-American—leading a major U.S. synagogue.