The Rev. Winnie Varghese will be installed Saturday as rector of St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, the first rector of the history church in more than two
Responding to Patrick Hall’s Daily Episcopalian post about “Starbucks parents” who drop their kids off for Sunday School and then skip church themselves, Melissa Holloway
The Diocese of California is new way to measure church vitality:
More wisdom from Bishop Alan Wilson. He reflects on what really might be going on when someone asks the Bishop of Buckingham to sack the local vicar.
Along the way to church foreclosure/divestment lurk a number of thoroughly unpleasant questions. The less they’re addressed over time, the greater the chance of catastrophe. But if we find ourselves asking them, it may mean we’re in slow-burn mode.
The Washington National Cathedral has named the Rev. Canon Gary R. Hall, Ph. D. as its tenth dean succeeding the Very Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd, III.
Update: The church mentioned below is in Daytona Beach, Florida. Fr. Phil Egitto at Our Lady of Lourdes says he adapted this from text originally
in the church, we hear things like: “We don’t have enough people. We don’t have enough resources. We don’t have enough time. We tried something new before and it didn’t work.” These are all the words of people infected with learned helplessness.
Today is the summer solstice: the longest day of the year and the first official day of summer.