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 […]
GC80 Morning Update: Monday, July 11
Greetings on the final day of The Episcopal Church’s 80th General Convention in Baltimore. These daily roundups from the Office of Public Affairs provide news, events, and resources related to GC80.
GC80 Morning Update: Sunday, July 10
Greetings on the third day of The Episcopal Church’s 80th General Convention in Baltimore. These morning and evening updates from the Office of Public Affairs provide roundups of news, events, and resources related to GC80, which runs through July 11.
Episcopal Church leaders respond to gun violence in Uvalde
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and other church leaders offered prayerful and practical responses to the May 24, 2022, mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Bulletin Insert: Day of Pentecost – June 5, 2022
J. Robert Wright’s Legacy: Ecumenism for a Dangerous Time
A Sermon Preached at the Solemn Requiem Mass for the Reverend Canon J. Robert Wright May 19, 2022The Chapel of the Good ShepherdThe General Theological SeminaryNew York, New Yok By the Right Reverend R. William Franklin In the Name of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Bishop Dietsche, Dean Delashmutt, Honored guests— It is […]
EPPN Series on Children: Kids and Climate Change
To read the previous installment of the series on children, click here.
EPPN Series on Children: Introduction
Working group calls Episcopalians to address harms of white supremacy, legacies of colonialism and imperialism
Community, the Presiding Officers’ Working Group on Truth-Telling, Reckoning, and Healing has released a report that includes the creation of a new organization within The Episcopal Church called the Episcopal Coalition for Racial Equity and Justice.
The Good Friday Offering: 1972-1982
Issues in history have a habit of reoccurring. As we look at the sixth decade of the Good Friday offering, we arrive in the early 1970s and momentous changes occurring within The Episcopal Church. On July 29, 1974, two years before General Convention affirmed and explicitly authorized the ordination of women to the priesthood, eleven […]
Hunger for the Word, Lent 1 (C) – 2022
[RCL] Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16; Romans 10:8b-13; Luke 4:1-13 What strikes the reader and listener of the lectionary this morning is the eternal echo of God’s Word in Scripture. We hear it in the phrase “forty days and nights,” a familiar set of numbers found both in the Hebrew Scriptures and here in the […]
Do Friendships Matter?
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang […]
Bulletin Insert: Week 1 – Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent – March 6, 2022
The journey through Lent into Easter is a journey with Jesus. We are baptized into his life, self-giving, and death; then, we rise in hope to life transformed. This Lent, communities are invited to walk with Jesus in his Way of Love and into the experience of transformed life.
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 7 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: The Diocese of Botswana and the Diocese of North Carolina – February 20, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features Professor James Nathaniel Amanze and the Rev. Bonny Bashe of the Diocese of Botswana, in the Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa, and the Rev. Miriam Saxon and the Rev. Leon Spencer of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina.
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 6 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: Fr. Bruce Woodcock and the Ven. Samuel J. Ponniah – February 13, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features the Rev. Canon Bruce Woodcock, Partnership Officer for Asia and the Pacific, and the Ven. Samuel J. Ponniah, Archdeacon of Jaffna, Diocese of Colombo, in the Anglican Church of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 5 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: The Diocese of New York and the Diocese of Central Tanganyika – February 6, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features Mr. Patrick Kidd, chair of the Diocese of New York’s Global Mission Commission, Canon Ernest Ndahini of the Msalato Theological College, Central Tanganyika Diocese, in the Anglican Church of Tanzania, and Deacon Robin Newman, chair of the Diocese of New of York’s Tanzania Task Force.
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 4 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: The Very Rev. Sally Sue Hernández and the Rev. Glenda McQueen – January 30, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features the Rev. Glenda McQueen, Episcopal Church Partnership Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Very Rev. Sally Sue Hernández, Dean of the Catedral Anglicana de San José de Gracia, in the Anglican Church of Mexico. Watch their discussion at iam.ec/epiphany2022 and follow along by yourself or in a small group.