Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service] One of a growing number of Episcopal Church priests takes Ash Wednesday out of the church and into the streets or, in this case, the train station.

[Oficial de Asuntos Públicos] Sermones que funcionan [Sermones que iluminan –en la serie en español], una oferta popular y muy utilizada por el clero y líderes laicos de la Oficina de Comunicación, se expande para ofrecer servicios adicionales. Lanzada el Miércoles de Ceniza, 22 de febrero, la ampliada serie de Sermones que funcionan seguirá ofreciendo [...]

[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] Sermons That Work, the popular and heavily utilized offering for clergy and lay leaders from the Office of Communication, is expanding to provide additional services. Launched on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, the expanded Sermons That Work will continue to offer ready-to-preach sermons and weekly Bible study, while now providing [...]

[Episcopal News Service] Cualquiera que considere la Cuaresma como [una estación] aburrida o terriblemente seria no se ha conocido al Rdo. Tim Schenck. En tanto otros episcopales pueden estar contemplando si renunciar al chocolate o a las bebidas alcohólicas, o considerando qué disciplina espiritual imponerse durante estos solemnes 40 días, Schenck se dedica a sopesar [...]

[Episcopal News Service] On the eve of the Super Bowl, a luncheon speaker reflected on his 50-year career, which included positions as a head college football coach and leader of the National Football Foundation and Football Hall of Fame. Football, he declared, was all about the money, and a well-oiled publicity machine keeps it at [...]

[Episcopal News Service] When considering what makes for great godparents, think 12-step program sponsor. “One of the things I tell parents when I’m doing baptismal preparation is, it’s like the sponsor in an AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) context,” said the Rev. Ruth Lawson Kirk, rector of Christ Church Christiana Hundred in Wilmington, Delaware. “You want somebody [...]

[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] On April 21, the Episcopal Church will sponsor a forum on a critical topic: The Intersection of Poverty and the Environment. Originating from St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Salt Lake City, UT, the two-hour ecumenical forum will be live webcast beginning at 10 am Mountain (9 am Pacific, 11 [...]

[Anglican Communion News Service] Bishop Chad Gandiya of Harare Feb. 22 issued an open letter to stress the difference between the Church of the Province of Central Africa dioceses in Zimbabwe and the churches run by an excommunicated former bishop. Gandiya said in the letter that there appeared to be “still a lot of confusion” [...]

[Anglican Journal] Most Canadians visiting Cuba in February are there for the sun, the sea and the mojitos. But early this month, Archbishop Fred Hiltz of the Anglican Church of Canada led a delegation with a different purpose: to observe the 103rd synod of the Episcopal Church of Cuba, led in Havana by Bolivian-born Bishop [...]

[Episcopal News Service – Shanghai, China] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori met with leaders of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) of the Protestant Churches in China and the China Christian Council (CCC) here Feb. 22. The presiding bishop later worshiped with Chinese Christians at the TSPM and CCC headquarters. In China, Protestant Christian worship is [...]

[Episcopal News Service] Un hecho de fe, entrega y heroísmo tuvo lugar recientemente en Ecuador cuando el Hermano Pedro, español de 43 años, se lanzó al mar para rescatar a siete niños que habían sido arrastrados por una ola en Quinindé, provincia de Esmeralda. Pedro, natural de Chiclana de la Frontera, trabajaba con un hogar [...]

[Church of England] Leaders representing most of the UK’s mainstream churches have today called for repentance over the prevailing ‘shrug-culture’ towards climate change. The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams and the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Richard Chartres who is chair of the Church of England’s national environmental campaign, Shrinking the Footprint joined [...]

[Episcopal Relief & Development] This month’s Friends of Episcopal Relief & Development celebrates the “Give a Goat” Coffee House put on by the youth group at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Marco Island, Florida.  The event featured live music, a variety of goat milk products and an appearance by a real baby goat.  It raised [...]

[Anglican Health Network] The Anglican Health Network (AHN) medical supply system is now open for business. With access to a wide range of surplus equipment in the United States, AHN is now looking for partners and recipients to facilitate deliveries. “We have the supply lines. We are aware of hospitals and health centres around the [...]

[Diocese of Rhode Island] The Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John in Providence, Rhode Island, announced Feb. 21 that, due to dwindling financial resources, its worship and pastoral services will be suspended after April 22. The St. John’s building at 271 North Main will retain its status as the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode [...]

[Oficial de Asuntos Públicos] El Manual para obispos y deputados, una referencia importante para entender y navegar por la Convención General de la Iglesia Episcopal, se ha revisado para el 2012 y está disponible para ser descargado sin costo alguno aqui. “El Manual para obispos y diputados es una referencia de la Convención General para [...]

[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] The Bishop and Deputy Handbook, an important reference for understanding and navigating the Episcopal Church’s General Convention, has been revised for 2012 and is now available to download at no cost. “The Bishop and Deputy Handbook is a reference of the General Convention for elected deputies as well as [...]

[Episcopal News Service] Here comes Lent. Again. My usual Lenten discipline is reading either Thomas Keating’s Journey to the Center or Martin L. Smith’s A Season for the Spirit. Both have offered me something new each Lent. Last year I thought I’d try something new, and focused on the book Bread and Wine: Readings for [...]

[Seamen's Church Institute] Among discussions of anti-piracy measures in the Gulf of Aden and special courtrooms in the Seychelles and Mauritius, the maritime industry has begun to broach a gentler, less politically hot topic in the wake of 237 pirate attacks off coast of Somalia in 2011. What happens to seafarers, held often for months [...]

[Episcopal News Service] Anyone who considers Lent boring or deadly serious never met the Rev. Tim Schenck. While other Episcopalians may be contemplating whether to give up chocolate or alcohol, or which spiritual discipline to take on for a solemn 40 days, Schenck is busy pondering whether Augustine or Lancelot Andrewes would match up better [...]