For over 700 years, the parish of St. Dymphna and the residents of the village of Geel, Belguim, has been been ministering to people with mental disorders by welcoming them into their homes and caring for them.
A pastoral letter to the congregation of the Cathedral of St. Luke in Orlando, Diocese of Central Florida, describes the pastoral care the Cathedral is providing to the victims of the mass shooting at The Pulse last Sunday.
The National Park Service has added St. Matthew’s and St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Detroit to its National Network to Freedom.
The Very Rev. Miguelina Howell, the first Hispanic woman to be elected a cathedral dean in The Episcopal Church will be installed at Christ Church
The Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial board strongly supports St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Richmond as they come to terms with their Confederate past.
The Rev. John Ohmer spoke with the Washington Post on the ministry of the Falls Church Episcopal Church since September 2012.
St. Matthew’s Church used to meet in a big church building in Westerville, OH. Now they meet in pubs and a storefront and is growing in unexpected ways.
Christ Episcopal Church in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, has a new pastoral care ministry called “Paws With Christ” through which certified dog and owner teams visit local nursing homes and work with other community members.
The Episcopal Church in its local, lived expression is very good at stifling new ideas and suffocating relational groupings if it appears that such movements will threaten the establishment. Creating these checks-and-balances between Vestry and Parish Council, then, will lead both groups to become partners in the work of ministry, one paying greater attention to relational matters, the other to those more functional (and necessary) concerns of what it means to be church.
The Rev. Steve Lawler says this the food pantry at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church was already important to the community before the August 9 shooting death of Michael Brown but the violence that followed caused the pantry to shut down just when local residents needed them the most. But now the pantry in serving more people than ever.