Bishop Kirk Smith of Arizona joined several religious and union leaders Wednesday urging that family-unification policies be included in any comprehensive immigration reform legislation.
We are tipping our collective cap this Easter Monday afternoon to Bishop Dorsey McConnell and Andy Muhl of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. They did a great Ash Wednesday video, and now they are back with an Easter message.
Bishop Mariann Budde, Imam Suhaib Webb, Rabbi David Wolpe and Bishop Harry Jackson appeared in a pre-recorded segment of Face the Nation this morning, offering their perspective on the state of religion in modern America.
Nearly a year after his election to the position, Archdeacon Michael Pollesal has been ratified as bishop coadjutor of Uruguay. The Uruguay Synod elected Pollesal
A lovely video from the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, capturing Monday’s rainy Way of the Cross along Pennsylvania Avenue, where 20 bishops and nearly 400 lay people prayed for action to reduce gun violence.
The Episcopal Church is making news for its efforts to reduce gun violence. Last night more than 1,000 people in the Diocese of Chicago braved
The Detroit Press carries this obituary of the Rt. Rev. H. Coleman McGehee, retired Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan. It begins:
The House of Bishops meeting at Kanuga have issued A Word the Church: Godly Leadership in the Face of Violence.
As Catholic leaders gather in Rome to select a new pope and as the Senate Judiciary Committee resumes its markup of gun bills, leaders of diverse faiths in the U.S. are taking action today to demand that Congress pass common-sense gun law reforms to prevent the gun violence that claims the lives of 33 Americans every day.
He said that over 50% of Episcopalians in South Dakota are Lakota, 60% of whom live below the poverty line. Unemployment is as high as 85%. He told several stories of contemporary Lakota women and men in his diocese, modern day Holy Women, Holy Men whose courage, perseverance and amazing generosity in such a difficult context are continually inspiring.