“In this tense context, the US Episcopal Church, which we serve in Egypt under, asked us to leave for a short time until the situation calms down. They have been most helpful, encouraging and supportive during this whole trauma. There is considerable concern that the situation is increasingly unstable.”
Episcopal churches in Louisville and Detroit step in to meet needs for liturgies of mourning and remembrance.
How many times to we go to the ecclesiastical grocery store to buy our quick-rise “yeast” program off the shelf – packaged and guaranteed to deliver? And how often are we disappointed that our efforts produce a ho-hum spiritual bread devoid of the joy of labor well done, of prayerful work committed over a long period?
The Seamen’s Church Institute is one of oldest and most storied para-church ministries in the Episcopal Church. If you’ve ever done ministry in port city,
If we haven’t asked the question well enough by now, it is now past time to do so, and at all levels: How equipped is The Episcopal Church to partner with Hispanic communities and churches as well as Spanish-speaking leaders and entrepreneurs among the faithful?
A new animated video detailing the situation in Sudan and the critical nature of the upcoming referendum is available from the Episcopal Church Office of Communication and a newly-released musical composition captures the spirit of the people of the Sudanese Diocese of Renk.
A fascinating document on everything from the percentage of Christians in the world population – about the same from 1900 to 2010 to ecclesiastical crime – rising exponentially.
As Stanley Hauerwas says, when you meet a church in paroxysms about “the family”, you have met a church which no longer believes in God. What about the Church agonising about its ministry to the individual?
On December 1, 1955, during a time of racial segregation, Parks sat at the front of the black section of the bus, when all the seats in the front were taken the bus driver asked Parks to give up her seat so a white passenger could sit down. She refused and was arrested…
CHEFS is a ministry of Episcopal Community Services Center that trains the homeless to work as chefs in the San Francisco area.