Congratulations to the Very Rev. Justin Lindstrom, dean of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Oklahoma City for helping to leaven this story in The Oklahoman
Resolved: That whenever the colored members of the Church in any parish desire to form a new and separate congregation, such action shall have the sanction of this Diocese. They may elect their own Vestry, Wardens, and Ministers. They shall be considered as under the care of this Council, and their interests as represented in it by the Standing Committee on Colored Congregations.
Bishop Dorsey McConnell of Pittsburgh announced today that pastors in his diocese can decide for themselves whether to bless same-sex relationships. He wrote:
Bishop James J. Shand, Bishop of Easton, is resigning but is not calling for an election yet:
The Convention of the Diocese of Olympia voted last week to divest within five years all of its holdings in the world’s top fossil fuel companies.
As someone who has been generally supportive of the need to litigate to retrieve Episcopal Church property appropriated by groups that have left the church
The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago and The Episcopal Church filed suit yesterday in a circuit court in Peoria asking that clergy and lay members of
The Episcopal Church has released new statistics on attendance and church membership showing overall membership to be down 1.4 percent and average Sunday attendance down
…radically reimagining diocesan convention could give us the best of belonging to both a small and large church; diocesan convention, instead of being an annual burden, might become one of the high points of the ecclesial year. Laity and clergy might even clamor for convention to meet more than once a year!
by George Clifford When people search for a church to join, one early stage decision in the process is whether to find a denominational or