Tag: About this blog

Dear friends,

I started blogging just under nine years ago when NBC announced that it was airing The Book of Daniel, a television show about an Episcopal priest. The show crashed quickly, but the blog had received national news coverage and we had a large and feisty audience, so I decided to keep it going. The Blog of Daniel was succeeded by Daily Episcopalian, a blog devoted primarily to the struggles over the place of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people […]

Dear friends,

I am signing off today after 7 1/2 years as editor of the Episcopal Café. I think I have learned a few things in that time, or maybe I have just developed a few opinions. Whatever the case, I wanted to share a few parting thoughts with you.

So here is what I think I know:

• That the people of the church must seek out their neighbors in ways that may be uncomfortable to them, and that they must find ways […]

Advent marks the beginning of the church’s year, and this Advent will also mark the beginning of a new phase in the life of the Episcopal Café. As that season and new beginning draw near, I wanted to share with you what’s happening. So, what’s next for the Café? Hopefully, lots more of the same great news and contributions that have been the Café’s hallmark. As I said to Jim Naughton, the Café’s founder, my primary goal is to […]

Jim Naughton: What set Jon apart was a firm understanding of the importance of the Café’s role as an independent source of church news, and a clear vision of how to sustain the site in the years ahead

After almost nine years blogging at the Episcopal Café and its predecessors, I have decided to pursue a new project. The news blogging team and I haven’t determined whether it is time to close the Café, and we’d like to hear from some of you before we make that decision.

Perhaps my favorite story that has ever appeared on the Cafe was published in early April 2008. It was written by Andrew Gerns and began:

As a part of opening week festivities, Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori announced today that the Episcopal Church has been designated the Official Denomination of Major League Baseball. The move was announced today in a teleconference with

Here’s a list of the top ten most frequently viewed stories, essays and items since Episcopal Cafe opened for business seven years

Episcopal Café began publishing just a little over seven years ago, on April 19, 2007. April 19, 2014 was Holy Saturday, so we decided to delay marking our anniversary for a few

Today is Episcopal Cafe’s seventh anniversary, but as it is also Holy Saturday, we are transferring the observance, as church folks say, to Thursday April 24. More

We are delighted to announce that beginning next week, the Rev. Megan Castellan and Weston Mathews will be joining the Café news