Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop writes to congregations about Good Friday offering for Jerusalem and Middle East

Presiding Bishop hosts online forum: Human Trafficking: A Churchwide Conversation

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will host an hour-long exploration into the church’s work in Human Trafficking on Wednesday, March 6. Human Trafficking: A Churchwide Conversation will originate from the Chapel of Christ the Lord in the Church Center in New York City beginning at 2 pm Eastern, 1 pm Central, noon Mountain, […]

Episcopal Church World Mission Sunday, February 10

February 10 is World Mission Sunday in the Episcopal Church. “The last Sunday of Epiphany is recognized every year as World Mission Sunday around the Episcopal Church,” notes the Rev. David Copley, Episcopal Church Officer for Mission Personnel. “The word ‘mission’ comes from the Latin verb mittere ‘to be sent out’; mission is about being […]

Media Advisory: Episcopal Church Executive Council to meet in Maryland February 25-27

The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church will meet February 25-27 at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum Heights, MD (Diocese of Maryland). Media representatives wishing to attend the meeting must secure credentials. Contact Neva Rae Fox, Public Affairs Officer, at publicaffairs@episcopalchurch.org. A media conference with phone access for media not able […]

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Lent Message 2013: “Learn more, give alms, share what you have.”

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on gun violence

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued the following statement. _____________________________________________________________   The United States has witnessed far too many public shootings in recent months and years. Far too many lives have been cut short or maimed by both random and targeted acts of gun violence. The school shooting in Newtown was horrific, […]

Updated Lesson Plans That Work now available online

The popular Lesson Plans That Work, an online resource from the Episcopal Church, has been updated and revised, now with three distinct tracts for younger and older children, and adults. Lesson Plans that work are available here: https://lessonplansthatwork.org/, part of the growing Episcopal Digital Network. “Lesson Plans That Work is utilized by many throughout the […]

President of House of Deputies calls for action on immigration reform

Episcopal Church President of the House of Deputies, the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, has issued a letter calling on Episcopalians to ask their elected officials to support immigration reform. “We Episcopalians know that welcoming the stranger among us is one of our greatest responsibilities and joys,” President Jennings writes. “You can stand with our immigrant […]

Planning team nominations now accepted for Episcopal Youth Event 2014

Presiding Bishop at Haiti earthquake anniversary: “God is with us, God is here, God will always be here”

Haiti earthquake Anniversary12 January 2013Cathédrale Ste Trinité, Port-au-Prince   Nous avons écouté les mots d’Apocalypse: "J'ai vu la ville sainte, parée comme une mariée … et j'ai entendu une voix qui disait: "la maison de Dieu avec les hommes.  Il habitera avec eux, essuiera toute larme, il mettra fin à la mort, fin à le […]