Advocacy Resources
Advocacy Resources Explore our resources to equip you for advocacy including Episcopal Church policies, tips for communicating with your elected officials, voter engagement, and more! For resources on civil discourse and political conversations visit our civil discourse page. Have you used a resource below? Let us know! Reach out with your stories of educating about the […]
Episcopal Service Corps
Episcopal Service Corps Spring Virtual Open House Have you been thinking about applying to the Episcopal Service Corps (ESC)? Join us on March 27 at 9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific for our next open house! This month’s event will be hosted by Lawrence House in South Hadley, Mass., and Johnson Service Corps in Durham, N.C. […]
Listings
The Episcopal Church canonically recognizes 18 traditional orders and 14 Christian communities for men, women, or both. Religious Orders and Christian Communities serve the greater church in several ways. Many offer retreat houses and individual spiritual direction. Each community has a rule of life and is committed to prayer, life in community, and hospitality. Each year, the […]
What is the “quest and adventure” of Religious life today?
What is the “quest and adventure” of Religious life today? – Brother Curtis Almquist, SSJE Religious sisters and brothers are eccentrics. I’m not referring to our being rather dated curiosities (though we often do attract attention). I’m speaking of how, since the early centuries of the church, individuals have been drawn to the edge, to […]
Bible Study: Proper 7 (A) – 2020
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 the covenant God makes with him to provide descendants as […]
United Thank Offering: More than $1 million awarded in 2020 for Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion mission and ministry and young adult, seminarian grants
At its June 2020 meeting, the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church approved United Thank Offering (UTO) grants to support seven Young Adult and Seminarian grants, as well as 26 annual grants. UTO thanks everyone who, through a personal spiritual discipline of gratitude, contributed to the 2019 Ingathering. As a result of this gratitude and […]
Sermons: Year A
Sermons: Year A On this page, you will see all of our Year A sermons, organized by the liturgical occasion and season of the church year. Click on the large boxes for all of the sermons for a given observance going back to 1995. Advent is the first season of the church year, beginning with the […]
Organizations and Networks
Organizations and Networks Below is a list of groups affiliated with The Episcopal Church that provide resources, collaborations, ministry memberships, disaster assistance, and other services. Anglican Observer at the United NationsThese web pages are a new educational resource to help Anglicans-Episcopalians around the world in a timely way as they seek information about issues, debates […]
Habits of Grace, May 29, 2020: Pray for the entire human family
As we learn how to adjust our lives given the reality of the coronavirus and the request to do our part to slow its spread by practicing social distancing, I invite you to join me each week to take a moment to cultivate a ‘habit of grace.’ A new meditation will be posted each week […]
Misinformation, Disinformation, Fake News: Why Do We Care?
It can be tempting to think that the fear-inducing, hyper-partisan, misleading, and outright false content pervasive today is an exclusively modern problem. Yet for thousands of years, our Jewish and Christian ancestors have taught that deception is as old as humanity itself. In Genesis 3, the serpent manipulates Eve through a series of misleading and half-true statements to eat the forbidden fruit, then makes Adam do the same by offering him the choice through a trusted source. Sound like anything that has crossed your social media feed recently?
National Council of Churches to Hold Virtual Ecumenical Memorial Service on May 24 to Mourn the Lives Lost to COVID-19
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry to join other faith leaders in remembering those who have died in global pandemic The Episcopal Church is honored to share the following invitation from the National Council of Churches (NCC): The National Council of Churches USA (NCC) will hold a public online memorial service on Sunday, May 24, 2020 at […]
Rock Solid When Everything Feels Up in the Air, Easter 5 (A) – May 10, 2020
[RCL]: Acts 7:55-60; Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16; 1 Peter 2:2-10; John 14:1-14 It all feels so up in the air. When have so many people, everywhere, felt so uncertain, had so many unanswered and unanswerable questions all at the same time? When have so many plans been upended, suspended? When have so many guidelines been provisional, […]
All Sinners, Epiphany 6 (A) – February 16, 2020
[RCL]: Deuteronomy 30:15-20 or Sirach 15:15-20; Psalm 119:1-8; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; Matthew 5:21-37 There have been many good and talented comedy troupes throughout the years: Burns and Allen, Martin and Lewis, the original cast of Saturday Night Live, for instance. Of course, there is Monty Python, so good it hurts. But of all the wonderful […]
Testimony, Epiphany 2 (A) – January 19, 2020
[RCL]: Isaiah 49:1-7; Psalm 40:1-12; 1 Corinthians 1:1-9; John 1:29-42 Don’t you find it remarkable that we know anything at all? If you think about it, we don’t know much of anything unless we have been taught it by another person. Engaging in a website or a film or a book privately is being taught […]
On New Website, Task Force Seeks Participation in Liturgical Revision
AdventWord 2019: 16. Learn
We learn through information and through experience. The work of the General Convention Office involves creating information and resources for the Church as well as planning and staffing experiences for the whole Church. The GCO is responsible for or has oversight of much of the information – Constitution and Canons, historical records (e.g. Journal of […]
From 16 to 365 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Today, December 10th, is the worldwide commemoration of Human Rights Day and the final day of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence that runs each year from November 25th – December 10th. And yet, it is not the final day. Gender-based violence requires our sustained action 365 days a year. In this spirit, […]
AdventWord 2019: 6. House
Scraping windows is one of those chores that can only be done slowly. Repeatedly. Diligently. Painstakingly. And it is awful, boring, sweat-producing, tedious work. I was scraping our windows so that we could repaint them a newer, shinier, more appealing hue of white, in an attempt to lure a buyer for our house. I was […]
Lutheran-Episcopal Coordinating Committee issues communiqué
The Lutheran-Episcopal Coordinating Committee (LECC) has issued the communiqué below following their October meeting in Chicago, Illinois: Almost Two Decades of Life Together: How Do We Encourage Next Steps? Lutheran-Episcopal Coordinating Committee (LECC) October 15-17, 2019 Lutheran Center, Chicago, Illinois The Lutheran Episcopal Coordinating Committee met at the Lutheran Center in Chicago on October 15-17, 2019. […]
Everyday Adventures: To What End?
In spring 2018, the Evangelism Office of The Episcopal Church created the Episcopal Evangelists Facebook group. It was born from the desire to begin connecting evangelists – young and old, novice and experienced – across the Church. Here on the Evangelism blog, we will be sharing stories from the Facebook group—stories we think can help others in their […]