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  • Video: Ashes to Go
    [Episcopal News Service] One of a growing number of Episcopal Church priests takes Ash Wednesday out of the church and into the streets or, in this case, the train station.

  • Los populares Sermones que funcionan de la Iglesia Episcopal se expanden con nuevas ofertas e ideas
    [Oficial de Asuntos Públicos] Sermones que funcionan [Sermones que iluminan –en la serie en español], una oferta popular y muy utilizada por el clero y líderes laicos de la Oficina de Comunicación, se expande para ofrecer servicios adicionales. Lanzada el Miércoles de Ceniza, 22 de febrero, la ampliada serie de Sermones que funcionan seguirá ofreciendo [...]

  • ‘Sermons That Work’ expands with new offerings, ideas
    [Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] Sermons That Work, the popular and heavily utilized offering for clergy and lay leaders from the Office of Communication, is expanding to provide additional services. Launched on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, the expanded Sermons That Work will continue to offer ready-to-preach sermons and weekly Bible study, while now providing [...]

  • Locura de Cuaresma: un enfoque divertido para el conocimiento de los santos
    [Episcopal News Service] Cualquiera que considere la Cuaresma como [una estación] aburrida o terriblemente seria no se ha conocido al Rdo. Tim Schenck. En tanto otros episcopales pueden estar contemplando si renunciar al chocolate o a las bebidas alcohólicas, o considerando qué disciplina espiritual imponerse durante estos solemnes 40 días, Schenck se dedica a sopesar [...]

  • The greatest sacrament
    [Episcopal News Service] On the eve of the Super Bowl, a luncheon speaker reflected on his 50-year career, which included positions as a head college football coach and leader of the National Football Foundation and Football Hall of Fame. Football, he declared, was all about the money, and a well-oiled publicity machine keeps it at [...]

  • ‘It takes a community’ … to godparent
    [Episcopal News Service] When considering what makes for great godparents, think 12-step program sponsor. “One of the things I tell parents when I’m doing baptismal preparation is, it’s like the sponsor in an AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) context,” said the Rev. Ruth Lawson Kirk, rector of Christ Church Christiana Hundred in Wilmington, Delaware. “You want somebody [...]

  • Episcopal Church sponsors major topical forum
    [Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] On April 21, the Episcopal Church will sponsor a forum on a critical topic: The Intersection of Poverty and the Environment. Originating from St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Salt Lake City, UT, the two-hour ecumenical forum will be live webcast beginning at 10 am Mountain (9 am Pacific, 11 [...]

  • Harare bishop clarifies status of Zimbabwe’s loyal Anglicans
    [Anglican Communion News Service] Bishop Chad Gandiya of Harare Feb. 22 issued an open letter to stress the difference between the Church of the Province of Central Africa dioceses in Zimbabwe and the churches run by an excommunicated former bishop. Gandiya said in the letter that there appeared to be “still a lot of confusion” [...]

  • New era of freedom and expansion for Cuban church
    [Anglican Journal] Most Canadians visiting Cuba in February are there for the sun, the sea and the mojitos. But early this month, Archbishop Fred Hiltz of the Anglican Church of Canada led a delegation with a different purpose: to observe the 103rd synod of the Episcopal Church of Cuba, led in Havana by Bolivian-born Bishop [...]

  • Presiding bishop spends Ash Wednesday in Shanghai
    [Episcopal News Service – Shanghai, China] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori met with leaders of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) of the Protestant Churches in China and the China Christian Council (CCC) here Feb. 22. The presiding bishop later worshiped with Chinese Christians at the TSPM and CCC headquarters. In China, Protestant Christian worship is [...]