Good Friday Offering
The Good Friday Offering: 2012-2022
The 10th decade concludes our series on the history of the Good Friday Offering. For 100 years, The Episcopal Church has been a faithful partner with the Churches in the […]
The Good Friday Offering: 2002-2012
Continuing the theme of the last several posts, 2002-2012 remained a time of upheaval in the wider world – terrorism, wars, economic devastation – these were some themes of the […]
The Good Friday Offering: 1992-2002
The eighth decade of the Good Friday Offering coincided with the last years of the 20th century – and the first years of the 21st. The presiding bishops of The […]
The Good Friday Offering: 1982-1992
The seventh decade of the Good Friday Offering had an inauspicious beginning with a major recession beginning in the United States. The decade was plagued by incidents of violence and […]
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 […]
The Good Friday Offering: 1962-1972
The fifth decade of the Good Friday Offering saw a transformation of culture with words like “groovy” and “hippie” working their way into the lexicon of the day. Impacted by […]
The Good Friday Offering: 1952-1962
The fourth decade of the Good Friday Offering was marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War, and the Civil Rights movement in the United […]
The Good Friday Offering: 1942-1952
The third decade of the Good Friday Offering started with Hitler and his Nazi troops trampling around the world and, at times, appearing invincible. Things began to change in 1943 […]
The Good Friday Offering: 1932-1942
The second decade of the Good Friday Offering was one of pain, anguish, and conflict – though with glimmers of hope interspersed throughout the years. The country was gripped in […]
The Good Friday Offering: The First Decade: 1922-1932
Our Good Friday Offering began in the Roaring Twenties, a time of economic prosperity with a distinctive and vigorous social, artistic, and cultural zestfulness. The western world saw a rapid […]
