The Rt. Rev. Mary Gray-Reeves, vice president of the House of Bishops, attended the 2024 Anglican Primates’ Meeting in Rome April 26 to May 3 on behalf of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. Every two years, senior bishops, archbishops, and moderators from the Anglican Communion’s 42 member churches meet for prayer, conversation, study, and fellowship.

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will visit Haiti January 10-12 to mark the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake. At the invitation of Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin, Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori will celebrate and preach at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-au-Prince at the earthquake commemoration on Saturday, January 12. While…

Following are the opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, by Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe to the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, meeting June 23-25 in Linthicum Heights, Maryland.

Have you ever bought something that needed to be assembled? After struggling to get the huge package into the house, and further struggling to open the wretched thing, the instructions are tucked right at the bottom. The instruction booklet is in a number of languages, the English translation — for that is obviously what it…

“We are urgently committed to helping to build a society of peace with justice – a world of shalom and salaam, the very concept from which Jerusalem takes its name,” Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said in her address to the Congressional Prayer Breakfast for Peace in the Middle East on June 15,…

Genesis 21:8-21 Outside of the book of Genesis, the word “Abraham” appears in the Bible 142 times. Compare that with Sarah, which appears 24 times, and Hagar who only appears 3 times—once in Baruch and twice in Galatians. Given that father Abraham is remembered for the covenant God makes with him to provide descendants as…

an excerpt from House of Deputies President Julia Ayala Harris’ opening remarks during a March 8 online orientation for deputies and alternate deputies attending the 81st General Convention in June in Louisville, Kentucky.an excerpt from House of Deputies President Julia Ayala Harris’ opening remarks during a March 8 online orientation for deputies and alternate deputies attending the 81st General Convention in June in Louisville, Kentucky.

On October 1, 1996 a book called The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks made its debut. Almost ten years later, on June 25, 2004, the movie adaptation came out with the story coming to life through actors Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, and James Garner. The story is about an elderly couple that is dealing with the wife’s advancing…

Word and sacrament are at the heart of our worship and our life together as Christians. Today’s Gospel brings these two elements together in a very bold way. Our sacramental life together is given by God out of love for us. The Word of God is given to us so that we may know God…

God, our strength and our hope, grant us the courage of John the Baptist, constantly to speak the truth and boldly to rebuke injustice, with eyes open to recognize God among us. We are in the season of Epiphany, the season of growing light, the season of the Magi and the revelation of Christ to…