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[August 3, 2020] At its June meeting, The Episcopal Church Executive Council approved grants totaling $213,551 for new church starts and missional communities. Resolutions A005
“Resuming in-person worship services has not been reverting to worship as usual,” [LifeWay executive director Scott] McConnell said. “Churches are making efforts to make the
Today, the Lambeth Conference announced that it will be postponed an additional year: In March it was announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic and
Poet, priest, lawyer, inspirer – an inspiration to Martin Luther King, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall, and a pen pal to Eleanor Roosevelt
A release from The Episcopal Church: An invitation to join “Beijing +25: Celebrating the Blessing, Realizing the Dream” online study group [June 30, 2020] The
A letter yesterday from Dean Randy Hollerith announces that Washington National Cathedral will be eliminating 13 full-time and 12 part-time positions because of the impact
Update regarding DFMS offices, staff travel and sponsored meetings during the coronavirus pandemic June 11, 2020 A letter from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry to the
The Rt. Reverend Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Indianapolis, gave this address to canons and bishops of the Episcopal Church on June
“Jesus was always determined to make those who society sees as outsiders be insiders.” Desmond Tutu’s daughter, the Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu van Furth, quoted
In 1802, Absalom Jones, born into slavery in Delaware, became the first black priest in the Episcopal Church, co-founding and serving what became the African
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