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Updates from the UTO Board We know it is early, but this year, Heather is working on customized kits highlighting past grants awarded in your diocese and designed to engage people in finding out about the history and status of those sites today. We will use this information to prepare for the upcoming 150th anniversary of…
By Heather Melton, (she/her) UTO Staff Officer I’ve started joking that my title should be UTO staff officer and chaos coordinator. On my to-do list for this week is “fix explosions; make bigger.” I was talking with a coworker about the popular “volcano day” craft project that will be included in our Vacation Bible School…
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…
1953General Convention approves dialogue with the Methodist Church, meets from 1953-1961 1968United Methodist Church formed 1988General Convention commends United Methodist document on nuclear weapons 1991General Convention resolution to “Establish a Dialogue with Historic Black Methodist Episcopal Churches” 1996International Anglican-Methodist Dialogue releases “Sharing in the Apostolic Communion,” affirmed by General Convention in 2006 1996United Methodist document on Baptism, By Water and…
By Hank Jeannel By 1994, Fort Ord, a U.S. Army post in California’s Monterey Bay, was decommissioned. The thriving community of Marina, whose residents included many military families and veterans, would forever change. Epiphany Lutheran Church was “hanging by a string,” the Rev. Jon Perez said. “There were only five people left in the church…
The premise of the Episcopal Church’s Military Chaplains Just War Education Project is that the teachings of the Just War tradition can support military chaplains’ ministry and care to those who serve or have served in the armed forces. In particular, the tradition’s core concepts may be relevant in addressing “moral injury” suffered by combat veterans. The…
In addition to the Just War tradition, the Episcopal Church also calls upon its members to study and understand the tradition of pacifism. Early church fathers traced this tradition to the Gospels and Jesus Christ’s adherence to non-violence; in more recent times, the Episcopal Church has reaffirmed statements made by Lambeth Conferences dating to 1930…
The Episcopal Church calls upon all of its members to study, understand and utilize the Just War tradition developed over the centuries (General Convention resolutions 2003-A033 and 2003-A132). The following is an overview of the Just War tradition written with the Church’s military chaplains in mind, and intended to assist them in their ministry to those…
A Lutheran Proposal for a Revision of the Concordat of Agreement As amended and adopted by a more than two-thirds majority vote (716-317) as a relationship of full communion with the Episcopal Church by the 1999 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on August 19, 1999, at Denver, Colorado. Introduction Our churches…
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