The Episcopal Church Executive Council is accepting nominations for a lay member to fill an unexpired three-year term that became vacant when Heidi Kim resigned from the council on Jan. 30 to become executive director of the Episcopal Coalition for Racial Equity and Justice.

The standing committees and bishops exercising jurisdiction have given the required majority of consents to the Episcopal Church in Alabama for its Jan. 31 election of the Very Rev. Richard T. Lawson III as bishop. His consecration and ordination service is scheduled for June 27. In giving consent to Lawson’s ordination and consecration as bishop,…

The standing committees and bishops exercising jurisdiction have given the required majority of consents to the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia for its Jan. 31 election of the Rev. Karin MacPhail as bishop. Her consecration and ordination service is scheduled for June 13. In giving consent to MacPhail’s ordination and consecration as bishop, standing committees…

Dear people of God in The Episcopal Church, here in the United States, we awoke this morning with alarm to the news that the United States and Israel have launched a large military strike on Iran. This violent attack comes despite weeks of negotiations that many of us had hoped would prevent armed conflict in this fragile region, which is home to so many religious traditions and faithful people.