African-Americans in both the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America were called this week to help build the future of their churches by working hard in the present.
The story of one woman’s encounter with Mother Theresa who told her “to tell everyone who will listen what you have seen, what you have heard and what you have done in Kolkata.” Over twenty-eight years later, the now Rev. Susan is still telling the story; her service to others is still inspired by what she witnessed in Kolkata.
Our Episcopal Church has an active and essential role to play in society. We must be more than a voice, more than a presence. We are called to strive. We are called to proclaim. Like Moses, Isaiah, Jesus, and the countless others, we are called to free those oppressed in the slavery of an economy and culture that treats human labor like a commodity.
ECW, the Episcopal Church Women, is not a private club or a religious order. It is a reality, the presence of women in the Episcopal Church.
Bishop Marianne Budde reflects on the experience of two priests who were stopped by the police while driving through North Carolina with members of their family.
On this date in 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. Discuss. Posted by John B. Chilton Photo:
Writing in the National Catholic Reporter, Maureen Fiedler wonders when her church will have women in the priesthood. Meanwhile, Pope Francis asks “Why is it expected that women must earn less than men? No! They have the same rights. The disparity is a pure scandal.”
“Baltimore weeps today, but that’s just a prelude to what we’re going to do tomorrow and every day for the rest of our lives: we are going to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and get to the work of striving for justice and peace among all people, and respecting the dignity of EVERY HUMAN BEING.”
You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations.
Our item on a Catholic cathedral’s use of sprinklers to deter the homeless from sleeping in its doorways received attention here at the blog and