What to Expect When You’re Electing 2024
The 2024 election is underway. Americans are going to the polls to vote for the president, 435 members of the House of Representatives and 34 Senators, and many local and state officials. We want to share some key information about how U.S. elections are structured and administered. In the wake of the violence on January […]
Episcopal Church Policies on Gun Safety and Gun Reform
“We stand together in hope. We stand together in faith. We stand together in love. We stand individually as ambassadors of hope, vessels of faith, and sentinels of love. We stand as a community committed to making no peace with gun violence. We pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to inflame and enkindle […]
Living Together, Proper 14 (B) – 2024
[RCL] 1 Kings 19:4-8; Psalm 34:1-8; Ephesians 4:25-5:2; John 6:35, 41-51 Note: During the 2024 Season after Pentecost, Sermons That Work will use Track 2 readings for sermons and Bible studies. Please consult our archives for many additional Track 1 resources from prior years. There is a reason that the Rule of Saint Benedict is […]
Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves shares thoughts from 2024 Anglican Primates’ Meeting
The Rt. Rev. Mary Gray-Reeves, vice president of the House of Bishops, attended the 2024 Anglican Primates’ Meeting in Rome April 26 to May 3 on behalf of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. Every two years, senior bishops, archbishops, and moderators from the Anglican Communion’s 42 member churches meet for prayer, conversation, study, and fellowship.
Life-Giving Force, Proper 8 (B) – 2024
[RCL] Wisdom of Solomon 1:13-15; 2:23-24; Lamentations 3:21-33 or Psalm 30;2 Corinthians 8:7-15; Mark 5:21-43 Note: During the 2024 Season after Pentecost, Sermons That Work will use Track 2 readings for sermons and Bible studies. Please consult our archives for many additional Track 1 resources from prior years. Think for a moment of someone in […]
At #CSW68: “From NYC to Chicago”
By Lori Petrie, Diocese of Chicago (Province V) It is the second week of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’s 68th session (CSW68). Several of the members of the Presiding Bishop’s delegation are participating virtually now, so we are separate in distance, but not in spirit. Everyone here is working so hard […]
God Is Light, Easter 2 (B) – 2024
[RCL] Acts 4:32-35, Psalm 133, 1 John 1:1-2:2, John 20:19-31 God is light and in God, there is no darkness at all. When we walk in the light that is God, we have fellowship with one another. How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity! Amen. On this first Sunday […]
Take a Risk for Love
By the Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers Earlier this spring, April 7 according to the scribble at the top of my journal page, I wrote about why “It’s All About Love” mattered, why we were working so hard, and what blessing God might pour out through this Jesus Movement festival. The words—and the hope—feel just as significant now. […]
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.
Satisfaction, Proper 20 (A) – 2023
[RCL] Exodus 16:2-15; Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45; Philippians 1:21-30; Matthew 20:1-16 “I can’t get no satisfaction,” says Mick Jagger in his most famous song. That is exactly what our scriptures are about today. We have a passage from the Book of Exodus in which the Israelites are so unhappy and ungrateful that they actually wish out […]
Episcopal Youth Event 2023: Sermon from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
A lightly edited transcript of a message delivered by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry during the July 6 morning worship service at the Episcopal Youth Event in College Park, Maryland.
Bible Study: Proper 7 (A) – 2023
RCL: Genesis 21:8-21; Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17; Romans 6:1b-11; Matthew 10:24-39 Genesis 21:8-21 Outside of the book of Genesis, the word “Abraham” appears in the Bible 142 times. Compare that with Sarah, which appears 24 times, and Hagar who only appears 3 times—once in Baruch and twice in Galatians. Given that father Abraham is remembered for […]
Worship the Unity, Trinity Sunday (A) – 2023
[RCL] Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28:16-20 Today is Trinity Sunday, which might also be interpreted as Unity Sunday. Not to be confused with conformity or sameness, unity is, of course, impossible to create without generosity, love, and humility in inevitable conflict. The Trinity itself is an example of the tension, beauty, […]
All We Need, Easter 5 (A) – 2023
[RCL] Acts 7:55-60, Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16, 1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14 Let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:5) In the season of Easter, a reading from the Acts of the Apostles is often substituted for the […]
It’s All About Love Presenters
Featured Presenters and Preachers The Most Rev. Michael Curry 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 elected to a nine-year term in this role and installed in November of that year; he serves as The Episcopal […]
Third Round of Bilateral Dialogues: A Communiqué for Public Release
Third Round of Bilateral Dialogues: A Communiqué for Public Release The Third Round of Bilateral Dialogues between the Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) held its Winter 2023 meeting in Austin, Texas both in-person and on-line. All sessions began with morning and evening prayer, with celebration of the Eucharist on Thursday. Those present in-person/online […]
What We Love We Will Protect
By Bishop Marc Andrus Two stories I heard on the way to COP27, the latest United Nations climate change conference, being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, reminded me of the truth that “what we love we will protect.” These stories taught me something new about this saying, though – we love beings with souls, and […]
Participants
Participants Rencontrez notre hôte et nos participants La révérende Altagracia Pérez-Bullard, docteur en philosophie, est directrice du ministère contextuel et professeur adjoint de théologie pratique au Virginia Theological Seminary à Alexandria, Va. Altagracia a exercé son ministère pendant plus de trente ans en tant que ministre de la jeunesse, responsable communautaire et prêtre dans les diocèses […]
Centered Participants
Participants Meet Our Hosts and Participants The Rev. Altagracia Pérez-Bullard, Ph.D., is the director of Contextual Ministry and assistant professor of Practical Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va. Altagracia has served in ministry over thirty years as youth minister, community leader, and priest in the Dioceses of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. She […]
Redefining “hybridization”
By: The Rev. Katie Nakamura Rengers, Staff Officer for Church Planting I need to develop a new relationship with the word “hybridization.” After two years of Covid, including the absolutely exhausting start-stop caused by Omicron, for me “hybrid church” has come to mean “twice the work church.” A book that’s helped me is called “The […]