The resolution states, “All Episcopal institutions, programs, facilities, and services must ensure the safety of participants which should include requiring that all participants and staff participating are vaccinated in accordance with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Immunization Schedule and/or applicable state law…(Read More)

The Church of England is bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase “high church” this week as they change regulations surrounding their investment funds, the Church Commissioners for England fund, allowing for the possibility of funds being invested in medicinal cannabis.  Medicinal cannabis was legalized in the U.K. in November 2018. The Church…(Read More)

The Anglican Church of Canada completed its fourth regional consultation on human trafficking last month in Nanaimo, British Columbia.  This was the final in a series of regional consultations taking place around the country. Human trafficking is defined as, “modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation…(Read More)

It was announced earlier this week that Heather Cook, a former suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Maryland, will be released from prison later this month after serving just over three and a half years of a seven year sentence stemming from a December 27, 2014 traffic accident in which she struck and killed a…(Read More)

The Rev. Gerald Toussaint, pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, told ABC, “the church is not that building. The church is the people…If we stay together as a congregation, the church is alive and well…We can rebuild the building as long as we stay together…(Read More)

Earlier this week, the Bishop of the Diocese of West Texas, David M. Reed, released a letter detailing several immigration initiatives that are ongoing in the diocese.  The Diocese of West Texas is the southernmost diocese in the state and includes the cities of San Antonio, Brownsville, and Corpus Christi.  The diocese borders Mexico to…(Read More)

Although this move is a shocking policy reversal in the eyes of many, the reversal does not officially change the LDS Church’s stance or teaching against same-sex marriage. Rather, this change in policy simply offers a venue for the inclusion of children and youth who would have otherwise been excluded until legal adulthood…(Read More)

“People live such precarious lives already and there’s very little safety net so when something like this happens, the level of destruction is so much worse than it is for us here.  People are living on the edge.  Five days later, people are still living on rooftops waiting to be rescued,” stated the Rt…(Read More)