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If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. When I thought, “My foot is slipping,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. (Psalm 94:17-19) Join us each week as we share new prayers for the…
In our first episode of Episco-pols, we begin with the basics—who we are, what we represent, and how you can get involved. If you’ve just recently learned of our office, please consider this an invitation for you to get involved. If you’ve been a part of the EPPN for some time, even as a “green…
In this fourth episode of Prophetic Voices: Preaching and Teaching Beloved Community, we speak with Episcopalians committed to the Beloved Community about the lectionary texts for Advent 4 (B). The texts covered in this episode are 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 and Luke 1:26-38 – plus a bit more this week on the Magnificat. Our guests…
In this third episode of Prophetic Voices: Preaching and Teaching Beloved Community, we speak with Episcopalians committed to the Beloved Community about the lectionary texts for Advent 3 (B). The texts covered in this episode are Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11, the Magnificat, and John 1:6-8,19-28. Our guests this week are: Prophetic Voices is hosted by the…
For the last year, we have been praying every week naming many of the harms unfolding and acknowledging what is being erased, lost, and threatened. Together, we’ve lamented violence, conflict, and war. We grieved displacement and migration hardship, poverty, and economic insecurity. We’ve expressed our helplessness in the face of environmental degradation, political breakdown, and governance failures, discrimination and social exclusion, and…
I’m transgender, I’m a layperson, and I’m 39 years old. I grew up in a tongues-talking United Methodist Church in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, where my dad was the pastor. We were a poor congregation in a poor community, deeply divided over the inclusion and dignity of LGBTQ+ people. I remember thinking to…
On February 29th, while waiting in line to receive food, over 100 people were killed and over 750 wounded in Gaza. At the time of writing, we cannot know exactly what happened, but it is a further example of the sheer horror that civilians are facing while trying to fulfill their most basic needs. As…
The 81st General Convention of The Episcopal Church (GC81) was significant for ecumenical and interreligious work. The Standing Commission on Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations (SCEIR) generated many important pieces of legislation, which were adopted as expected. On the interreligious front, GC81 passed revised guidelines for interreligious relations and Episcopal-Jewish relations and our first guidelines for…
More than 140 global Christian leaders, including a Guatemalan Catholic cardinal and the presiding bishops of the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, called for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and for an end to foreign military support for Israel in a Tuesday (March 26) letter to U.S. President Joe Biden and other politicians.
The presiding bishop was elected on a mandate to reorganize the denomination’s aging structure and adapt to modern times. It’s something he knows a bit about.
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