Nuevo Amanecer conference addresses diverse aspects of Latino/Hispanic Ministries in the Episcopal Church

Episcopal Church input requested for annual United Nations major event

Presiding Bishop’s Message to the Church on General Convention

Nominees considered for special task force on church structural reform

New Process for Episcopal Church Constable Fund Grants Unveiled

Episcopal Church Economic Justice Loan Committee awards two loans to national community development organizations

The Episcopal Church Economic Justice Loan Committee has awarded two loans totaling more than $600,000 to community development organizations to assist in affordable housing and small business development in areas that lack access to traditional lending. The Economic Justice Loan Committee granted $300,000 in loans to the Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) of Sacramento, CA […]

Nominations open until August 1 to continue work of General Convention

Now that the 77th General Convention has concluded, the work of the Church continues. There is still time to submit a nomination to the General Convention office for clergy and lay volunteers to serve on committees and commissions of the General Convention and committees of the Executive Council. All members of the Episcopal Church may […]

Episcopal Church, Lutheran Presiding Bishops issue joint statement on 2012 International AIDS Conference

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori joined Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in presenting the following joint statement on the 2012 International AIDS Conference meeting in Washington DC July 22-27. We join together as Presiding Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Episcopal Church […]

Media Hub, social networks, Episcopal News Service Bring General Convention 2012 to audiences everywhere

A look at the astounding numbers from the Episcopal Church Media Hub, Facebook, Twitter, and Episcopal News Service illustrates not only the high level of interest in the recent General Convention, but also shows that viewers were engaging with the actions of General Convention, whether in Indianapolis or elsewhere.   Media Hub The Media Hub […]

General Convention July 12 Sermon: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

[1] Program, Budget, and Finance – committee that develops the budget [2] The Rev. Gregory Straub is the Secretary of General Convention [3] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [4] A good biographical review here:  http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1930/soderblom-bio.html [5] http://www.colonialswedes.org/Churches/Churches.html and related sites [6] https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2012/07/11/the-rev-stephanie-spellers-preaches-at-convention-eucharist/ [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping [8] Draw us in the Spirit’s Tether, music by Harold […]