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Concert for the Human Family Wins Webby Award
At the intersection between great art and a powerful voice for all people is the foundation of a new project called A Concert for the Human Family, an artistic collaboration created by The Episcopal Church’s Office of Communication and Racial Reconciliation and Justice Team. We’ve been dreaming around the question, “What could happen, what movement […]
Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing
Based on surveys completed by 72 dioceses, the Inventory of Racial Justice and Truth-telling Ministries details ministries of racial reconciliation, justice, and healing across The Episcopal Church. Researched and organized by the Racial Reconciliation and Justice Team in partnership with Justice and Sustainability Associates (JSA), the inventory provides an up-to-date picture of what ministries are […]
Safe Church Creates Holy Space
The guiding principle of Safe Church is to protect the vulnerable and offer the opportunity for us, as Episcopalians, to be good neighbors to one another. The new and updated program, Safe Church, Safe Communities, was launched in the summer of 2021. Safe Church, Safe Communities provides new and updated training modules for clergy, laity, […]
Embracing Evangelism
Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry, in his book “Following the Way of Jesus,” wrote, “We are a community of people whose lives are constantly being reoriented around Jesus…” Reorientation can be dizzying without a guide. The Episcopal Church’s Office of Evangelism has the resources you need to guide you and your faith community. Embracing Evangelism […]
Growing the Church: Engaging Young Adults
How do you find a living God and spiritual community if you are a young adult? The Episcopal Church, especially its Young Adult and Campus Ministry, seek to answer this question in new and vibrant ways that meet young people wherever they are—in urban or rural communities, athletic fields, or office buildings. In January, The […]
Donor Advised Funds: Your Gift, Your Way
These days, many of us want more control over how, when, and where to direct our charitable giving. There are many ways to make charitable gifts, but one increasingly popular vehicle is a “Donor Advised Fund” or ‘DAF’. Although it’s a charitable giving tool that has been around since the 1930s (and not formally governmentally […]
Economic Justice Loan Program Invests in Hope and Healing
The Executive Council of The Episcopal Church reported in January 2022 that a total of $6.1 million in loans are outstanding to organizations that work to alleviate poverty through strategies such as small business assistance, affordable housing development, job creation, and social support in low-income communities. Created in 1998, the Church’s Economic Justice Loan Program […]
Ways to Give: Planned Giving
A donor-advised fund (DAF) is an excellent way to support ministries and charities, like Episcopal Migration Ministries, that you love and feel connected to. Charitable fund sponsors can include many community foundations as well as the charitable arms of for-profit financial institutions. A few of these include Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, […]
Preparing the Way – Episcopal Migration Ministries
You have new neighbors. They live across town, down the street, or over that bridge, what do you know about them? How, as a neighbor, will you welcome them? Episcopal Migration Ministries/EMM seeks to help parishes and dioceses answer these questions and many more, with Neighbor to Neighbor. Neighbor to Neighbor is an emerging program that not only trains Episcopal parishes to accompany asylum seekers and their families as they pursue legal residency in the United States, it gives them the tools to create their own […]
Meaning and Mission: The Rev. Ranjit Mathews Reflects on the Young Adult Service Corps Twenty Years Later
In 2001, the Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) was a startup. Today it is a vital program area of The Episcopal Church. Its mission then and now is to offer young adults the opportunity to live and work alongside communities around the Anglican Communion, build relationships, and explore their faith in new ways. In 2000 the […]
