Tag: Mission

Anglicans begin to respond to human trafficking

Forty or so people from all over the Anglican Communion recently met in Hong Kong to plan a coordinated response to the scandalous practice of human trafficking. The most common form involves forcing children and women into the sex trade, but its rising tide now includes forced labor and organ harvest.

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Double your dollars when you give to ERD

Going to making a donation to Episcopal Relief and Development anytime soon? Thinking of giving in someone else’s name as a special Christmas gift? You can double your donation this month because of a generous matching fund gift.

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Hospice in prison

As courts have handed down longer sentences and tightened parole, about 75 prisons have started hospice programs, half of them using inmate volunteers, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Living full lives to the end

He had been ordained as a Deacon in Christ’s One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church the previous Wednesday evening. Ordained for less than a week, all knew that his death was imminent on the night of his ordination. At some level this makes no sense at all.

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Angel in the airport

Chester Cook knows he can always find a lost soul at the re-ticketing counter at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

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