The prayers and public witness continue less than two weeks before General Convention’s planned prayer service outside an ICE detention center in Taylor, Texas, about forty minutes away from the Episcopal Church’s triennial meeting in Austin.
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#ChurchToo has apparently come to England. The BBC reports that the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has released an interim version of its final report nearly a month before it was expected, and that it does not paint the Church of England in a positive light.
There is some happiness amid all the sad news this week. Kensington Palace has announced the date on which Prince Louis, the 3rd child of
“Praying for the women who are detained helps us act out for ourselves and the world the humanity of those detained. It reminds us that they are children of God, even as the prison tries to make them something other than that.”
Episcopal Service Corps is a network of intentional communities across the Episcopal Church that invites young adults to spend one year living in Christian community while engaging local justice initiatives, discerning vocation and developing leadership skills.
A round-up of bishops’ responses as they are received.
Among the topics that will be explored in Center Aisle’s GC79 coverage: the revision or rewriting our Book of Common Prayer, recognizing that prayer shapes who were are, “riches of our Church’s liturgical, cultural, racial, generational, linguistic, gender and ethnic diversity.”
“It is because we are followers of Jesus, because we follow the way of love, because we follow the way of compassion, because we follow the way of human decency and kindness that we must be passionately committed to helping the refugees and displaced persons of this day” -PB Curry
Bishops speak out against current policies