Episcopal Church announces 2023 Creation Care grant recipients
Seeking to support creative and long-term eco-ministries, The Episcopal Church’s Task Force on the Care of Creation and Environmental Racism selected 12 new grant recipients, approved by the church’s Executive Council during its June meeting.
Sessions and Authors
Session Titles and Curriculum Authors Section One | What is God’s Dream? Session One | God So Loved the World | Author: The Rev. Canon Stephanie SpellersTheme: Exploring God’s love for creation and forming small group circles through storytelling by articulating individual experiences of love and grief in relation to creation. Session Two | Water […]
Becoming Beloved Community in the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon
By Amy Jayne This story of justice and restoration begins at Ascension School Camp and Conference Center, the spiritual center of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon. From time immemorial, the land was an abundant First Foods habitat and a critical part of the seasonal-rounds lifestyle of the Native people of the region—the Walla Walla, Cayuse, […]
We look forward to gathering in Baltimore!
Across the church and around the world, we are hungry for revival and renewal. Join us for “It’s All About Love,” a festival of worship, learning, community, and action for the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement, July 9-12, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. “It’s All About Love” features three festival “tents” […]
TITLES
See the categories below for guidance on clergy, composition, event, and formal titles. clergy and religious titles: The first reference to a clergy member (bishop, priest, or deacon) normally should include a capitalized title before the individual’s first and last names. On second reference, use only a last name. See also An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, […]
Shalom: Faithful to the Dream of God, Easter 2 (A) – 2023
[RCL] Acts 2:14a,22-32; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31 We call today Doubting Thomas Sunday. The problem is, there is no doubt! No, really. English Bibles since the King James Version have Jesus saying to Thomas, “Do not doubt but believe.” But it’s not there in the Greek text. It does not say “doubt.” The Greek […]
Just War Tradition
The Just War Tradition The Episcopal Church calls upon all of its members to study, understand and utilize the Just War tradition developed over the centuries (General Convention resolutions 2003-A033 and 2003-A132). The following is an overview of the Just War tradition written with the Church’s military chaplains in mind, and intended to assist them in […]
Ola I Ka Wai – Water Is Life: The Red Hill Crisis Threatens Pristine Water Source
By the Rev. Jenn Latham, in conversation with the Rev. Kaleo Patterson Living in the islands and on Oahu for the last four years has been a transformative experience for me–deepening my faith in our Creator God—as I co-chair the Episcopal Creation Care and Environmental Justice Task Force on Oahu. The ministry of creation care requires […]
Episcopal Church awards 2023-24 Young Adult and Campus Ministry grants
The Executive Council of The Episcopal Church has awarded 20 grants, totaling $145,000, to young adult and campus ministries from dioceses across the U.S. and Cuba. The recommended grant applications were approved during the council’s February 2023 meeting.
A School Bus for Kivalina, AK: The Consequences of Climate Change
By Bishop Mark Lattime On November 9, 2022, the children of Kivalina, a small Inupiaq village on the coast of the Chukchi Sea of the Arctic Ocean in Western Alaska, rode a bus to school for the first time ever. There has never been a school bus in the village of Kivalina, a community of […]
Episcopal Church announces 2022 Creation Care grant recipients
Eco-ministries in the Episcopal dioceses of Cuba and Ecuador Litoral are among the nine recipients of this year’s Episcopal Church Creation Care grants—totaling $115,000—given to projects ranging from tree equity initiatives to renewable energy efforts.
Statement on Biden Administration Climate Executive Action
President Biden recently announced executive actions on climate and indicated there would be more to come. The Episcopal Church has long been committed to stewardship of God’s creation, and the Office of Government Relations commends the Administration’s executive actions aimed to address climate change and build more resilient communities. We applaud President Biden’s plan […]
Bible Study: Proper 14 (C) – 2022
[RCL] Isaiah 1:1, 10-20; Psalm 50:1-8, 23-24; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40 Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 The part of Isaiah that this reading comes from was written before the Babylonian Exile and is part of a series of oracles against Judah and Jerusalem. Judah was the southern part of what was once the united kingdom of […]
80th General Convention of The Episcopal Church: July 10 sermon by the Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, bishop of the Diocese of Maryland
The following is the text of a sermon recorded by the Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, for the July 10 Sunday Eucharist of the 80th General Convention of The Episcopal Church, meeting in Baltimore through July 11.
General Convention Newsletter
Tomorrow, the 80th General Convention of The Episcopal Church begins. And while this time will be different, General Convention remains the governing body of the Church and the Church’s highest temporal authority. General Convention meets in two legislative Houses, the House of Deputies and the House of Bishops, and each House meets to consider and […]
Indigenous Voices Past and Present
By Virginia Taylor The Diocese of Western North Carolina is leaning into learning and relationship with Indigenous communities. This spring clergy and lay leaders from across the diocese took their commitment to an even deeper level with the diocese’s first Indigenous Ministries Conference. The conference featured five important Indigenous voices: The Rev. Bradley Hauff, Indigenous […]
Toward GC80: Episcopal Church Executive Council, planning committee to meet June 7; sessions livestreamed
Both the Joint Standing Committee on Planning and Arrangements and the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church will convene online June 7 to formalize new plans for the 80th General Convention.
Reawaken to the Honorable Harvest
by Ashley Hubbard I am honored to be writing for the May Creation Care newsletter and hope you will join me in ushering in a season of rejuvenation and gratitude focused on remembering and reciprocity as we give thanks to Creator for the bounty of Earth. Can you sense it? The days are getting longer […]
GC80: Preachers and Presiders for General Convention worship
GC80: Preachers and Presiders for General Convention worship DAY 1 – Thurs., July 7 – Opening Eucharist Preacher: The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, presiding bishop, The Episcopal Church The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry is presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church. At the church’s 78th General Convention in June 2015, he was […]