Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 - The status of the priest’s wife is perhaps even more strange and unsettling than that of her ordained Catholic husband.

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 - The Vatican’s formation of an ordinariate for Episcopal priests who want to move to Catholicism will add to the small number of married priests in America.

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 - Roman Catholic Church establishes the equivalent of a nationwide diocese in the United States that former Episcopal priests and congregations can enter together as intact groups; converts will be considered full-fledged Catholics, and expected to show allegiance to the pope and oppose contraception, but will be allowed to preserve revered verses from the Book of Common Prayer; converting priests who are married will be exempted from the Catholic requirement of celibacy, but will not be allowed ...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 - Paul Quinn College, an N.A.I.A. men’s basketball squad, took on a top-10 program and lost by 41. Quinn’s coach said the experience was worth it.

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 - The church next to the park where Wall Street protests were staged is now at odds with activists, who want to hold more demonstrations on a church-owned lot.

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400 - Canon Simpson, the first Episcopal nun to be ordained as a priest, advocated for a greater role for women in the church.

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400 - The six Episcopal bishops in New York decide individually whether a priest can officiate at a same-sex wedding, or even attend.

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400 - An Episcopal parish in Maryland will be the first in the United States to join the Roman Catholic Church under a new streamlined conversion process created by Pope Benedict XVI.

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400 - In a sense, James E. McGreevey, the former New Jersey governor, is again campaigning for office: He hopes to be accepted as a candidate for the priesthood in the Episcopal Church.

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500 - The first paid chaplain at Cook County’s Stroger Hospital will be ordained Friday as an Episcopal minister.

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0400 - Bishop V. Gene Robinson said an international uproar had taken a toll on him and on his New Hampshire diocese.

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 - On Nov. 6, Jane Alison Shaw will be installed as the first woman to lead Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. She will also be the cathedral’s first openly gay dean.

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 - City Room blog entry recalls Isaac H Brown, sexton at Grace Episcopal Church in Greenwich Village from 1845 until his death in 1880; Brown was sought after as party planner for fashionable elite; drawing

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400 - The State Supreme Court ruled Thursday against nine conservative congregations that split from the Episcopal Church and tried to take their church properties with them.

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400 - Gentrification and the loss of longtime congregants have left some houses of worship with sparsely populated pews.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:50:05 +0000 - [Diocese of Southern Ohio] Erin Koepke found that the bond of food, of breaking bread together, transcends geography, age, race and culture. A longtime camp counselor in the Diocese of Southern Ohio and member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Dayton, Koepke joined micro-farmers from South Africa and two colleagues to create a cookbook using locally [...]

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:09:54 +0000 - [Episcopal News Service] Jonathan Myrick Daniels was a 26-year-old seminarian when he heard the televised appeal of Martin Luther King Jr. for students and clergy to join the struggle for civil rights. Inspired by the words of the Magnificat about the God who “hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the [...]

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:36:32 +0000 - [Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta] Victor Catanzaro can’t see, and he can’t walk. And he doesn’t have a lot of strength in his upper body. But he can serve as an acolyte in an Episcopal church. How can this be? Well, it takes a parish. About three years ago, Betsy Jones, who serves as acolyte master [...]

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:48:11 +0000 - [Episcopal News Service] Six priests have been nominated to stand for election to become bishop suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. They are: The Rev. Randy Alexander, 45, rector, Christ Church, Pelham (Diocese of New York); The Rev. Canon Susan Goff, 58, canon to the ordinary, Diocese of Virginia; The Very Rev. David May, [...]

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:43 +0000 - [Ecumenical News International] A diocese of the Church of South India (CSI) is preparing an appeal against a court order that has virtually stripped it of more than half its churches and institutions, inherited from the Basel Mission church. “We are preparing a strong appeal to get this order quashed. We are hopeful that our [...]

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:02:09 +0000 - [Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion] Today, with 6,000 co-ed students in Chennai, India, Madras Christian College (MCC) is the largest of the 50 Indian members of Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion (CUAC). During a Service of Thanksgiving to launch MCC’s 175th anniversary, ‘Celebrating History and Serving Humanity’, Dr Jeremy Law, Dean [...]

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:02:36 +0000 - [American Cancer Society] Residents of Austin have an unprecedented opportunity to participate in a historic study that has the potential to change the face of cancer for future generations. Men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer are needed to participate in the American Cancer Society’s [...]

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:36:17 +0000 - [Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio] With a generous $20,000 grant from the Roanridge Trust Foundation, Procter Center in the Diocese of Southern Ohio will partner with Episcopal Relief and Development to host a four-day training entitled “Growing Food and Faith.” The Growing Food and Faith program is a unique, long-term initiative that prepares rural community [...]

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:21:46 +0000 - [Episcopal News Service – Linthicum Heights, Maryland] As the Episcopal Church’s Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance (PB&F) began discussing the draft 2013-2015 budget here, the members often said they were faced with holding many things in tension. The budget committee met Jan. 30-Feb. 2 at the Maritime Institute’s Conference Center to receive [...]

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:20:35 +0000 - [Episcopal News Service] I’m excited to be part of a process in the Diocese of Washington focusing on collaboration, looking at Region 6 in our diocese. Locals call the region southern Maryland – 22 parishes in the old tobacco economy of lower Prince George’s, Charles, and St. Mary’s Counties.  All but two of the congregations [...]

Wed, 16 May 2007 21:25:55 -0400 - Current Exhibition
Image and Likeness
Carole Baker, Curator
 
For this exhibition, artists were invited to observe Christ’s presence in the world in which we find ourselves. Of the work represented here, Curator Carole Baker says the artists "reveal the varied and apparently random ways Jesus makes himself present in our lives. Some reflect mountaintop experiences while some reflect the truth witnessed on the cross. But they share the understated affirmation that God continues to use artists to see and show the mysterious ways Jesus participates in all aspects of our lives." More . . .

Wed, 16 May 2007 21:28:06 -0400 - Illustrated Word
A Pentecost Day by Judy Krum
Artwork, Filled with the Spirit, by Donna Shasteen

What a day! Judy Krum describes a Pentecost Day in all its glory.

the leaves marched in procession
behind the banner of the Dove,
        the spirit of newness and hope.
A Pentecost Day.

The poem is accompanied by a mixed media piece by artist Donna Shasteen that is inspired by Ephesians 5.18, "... be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs ...".
More . . .

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:33:21 GMT - Reuters - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich inserted himself into the long-running controversy about whether religious groups should be allowed to hold services in New York City public schools, and accused Mayor Michael Bloomberg of being "anti-religious."

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:05:01 GMT -

AP - Thirty-three civil rights groups from around the country complained to the New York attorney general Friday about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based on their religion.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:13:07 GMT - AP - The former congresswoman and one-time Mary Kay saleswoman dashed up to the pulpit of the black megachurch and offered stories of growing up poor and raising two children on her own as she tried to win the congregation's support for her bid to unseat Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:14:38 GMT - AP - Muslim groups and interfaith leaders are holding a rally in the wake of a report about New York Police Department intelligence.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:43:09 GMT -

AP - British leader David Cameron made a third unwanted shake up of his government since 2010 on Friday after Cabinet minister Chris Huhne quit as prosecutors charged him over an alleged attempt to pin a speeding penalty on his ex-wife.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:16:49 GMT -

AP - NATO's top official said Friday that the alliance expects regional powers to contribute to a multibillion dollar fund to finance the Afghan army and police after they assume full responsibility for the war in 2014.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:12:42 GMT - AP - Former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is brushing aside a cake-in-the-face attack, saying in a Facebook posting that at least he didn't go hungry at an event in Berlin.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:58:36 GMT - AP - A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has ruled that an anti-abortion protester arrested near the Liberty Bell in 2007 can't collect damages from park rangers who detained him.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:44:53 GMT -

AP - A Jewish charity co-founder who claimed he traveled the world as a "Jewish Indiana Jones" to rescue Torahs pleaded guilty to fraud charges Thursday, saying he lied when he claimed he had personally obtained vintage Torah scrolls in Europe and Israel for six years.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:22:40 GMT -

AP - Blending politics and religion, President Barack Obama said his Christian faith is a driving force behind his economic policies, from Wall Street reform to his calls for the wealthy to pay higher taxes.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:16:09 GMT -

AP - Jewish leaders are criticizing a ceremony that involved a controversial megachurch leader being wrapped in a religious scroll and exalted as a "king" to the applause of his parishioners.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:16:01 GMT - AP - The Obama administration scrambled Thursday to contain a growing election-year outcry over its decision that church-affiliated employers must cover birth control regardless of their religious principles.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:36:59 GMT - Reuters - President Barack Obama sought to emphasize his Christian faith on Thursday, telling a key election-year voting bloc that he prays every morning and has crafted elements of his economic policies in line with Jesus' teachings.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:59:19 GMT -

AP - If Mitt Romney wins the Nevada caucus Saturday, he might well feel special gratitude for the state's Mormon voters.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:39:43 GMT - Reuters - Iraq's highest court ratified death sentences on Thursday for three men convicted of a 2010 attack on a Syrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad, the bloodiest attack on Iraqi Christians after the 2003 invasion.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:30:19 GMT - AP - President Barack Obama attends the National Prayer Breakfast this morning in Washington, along with the first lady and Vice President Joe Biden.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:28:39 GMT - AP - Unions and employers are to resume talks in Greece as the country scrambles to push through more cost-cutting reforms and conclude massive debt deals with private and rescue creditors.

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:41:41 GMT - AP - Jesus at mountaintop ski resort in US allowed to stay after feds reverse statue's eviction

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:25:19 GMT - AP - Five years after an animal rights group complained about the treatment of chickens at an egg farm run by a Roman Catholic abbey in South Carolina, the monks are now earning their daily bread by growing mushrooms. It hasn't been easy or without frustration.

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:34:02 GMT -

AP - Church leaders called on parishioners Wednesday to pray for the soul of retired Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, who led them for more than 15 years but was also an uncharged central figure in a child sex-abuse case that involves the alleged shuffling of predator priests.