All Saints Church in San Leandro, CA has issued the following press release: This month, as part of a comprehensive greening project, All Saints Episcopal
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina wiped the building that housed St. Mark’s Episcopal Church from its seaside location, the parish’s retired rector and its current priest-in-charge reflect on the storm and its aftermath for the 169-year-old congregation
Mt Airy (basis for the fictional Mayberry) gets creative with faith communities and meeting spaces.
Philadelphia-based Partners for Sacred Places hopes to promote partnerships between congregations, artists, nonprofit cultural groups and even creative businesses in Detroit, Baltimore and Austin.
Bishop Gary Lillibridge of the Diocese of West Texas has approved a plan to allow three parishes in the diocese to bless same-sex unions.
The New York Times looks at the growing numbers of married couples in pastoral ministry in several traditions.
The Episcopal Church in its local, lived expression is very good at stifling new ideas and suffocating relational groupings if it appears that such movements will threaten the establishment. Creating these checks-and-balances between Vestry and Parish Council, then, will lead both groups to become partners in the work of ministry, one paying greater attention to relational matters, the other to those more functional (and necessary) concerns of what it means to be church.
If there are “fireworks” at the Annual Meeting they usually stem from the budget presentation — thoughtfully provided by the three parish cranks who bring up the same issues every single year.
A parish, whose rector died in December after being struck by a car while riding his bike, ponders the connections between their loss and the
Except for football matches churches are one of the few places in the UK where different ages, ethnic groups, and financial situations meet and get to