[Morristown Green] In a Father’s Day outing that could have been dubbed the Cicada Run, members of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and the wider community participated in a walk and “fun run” at Lewis Morris Park on June 16 to raise funds for the church’s youth group summer mission trip to Topsail, N.C. A portion of the funds also will benefit Abdulai’s Project, which builds homes in remote areas of Sierra Leone.
New Jersey Together Against Gun Violence has helped launch a national effort by religious leaders to meet with Executive Branch officials at all levels of government to explore ways of reducing gun violence in America. We have identified a number of steps that mayors, police chiefs, sheriffs, governors, attorneys generals and federal agency heads can take to help keep guns out of the wrong hands.
Members of a West Delhi Leper colony stand outside their chapel, which was started by the Delhi Brotherhood Society, an Anglican monastic community where I stayed for a week. One of the community's brothers celebrates Eucharist there every week; and the entire brotherhood is engaged in providing fees and support for the education of the community's children.
On June 9, 2013, more than 70 members of the diocese were honored with the David P. Hegg II Lifetime Achievement Award at the 17th annual Senior Ministries Evensong, held at Christ Church in East Orange with Canon Gregory A. Jacobs officiating.
The Rev. Canon Dr. Sandye A. Wilson, rector of St. Andrew & Holy Communion Church in South Orange, has been named one of four recipients of the Union of Black Episcopalians' 2013 humanitarian and honors awards.
The Rev. Ginny Dinsmore, Coordinator for Missional Church Strategy
Greetings everyone! Now that the day of Pentecost has come and gone and I begin to settle into the position of Coordinator for Missional Church Strategy, I thought I would try to articulate some of what I am learning about the "Missional movement" and what I see as I contemplate and dream of the future of this diocese with regard to being missional.
This is the stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. We were there on the Buddha's birthday. Thousands of people walked all night clockwise round it. An incredible, and moving, act of piety and devotion.
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:50:23 +0000 - [Diocese of Southwest Florida] The Rev. Wayne F. Farrell, 54, this week was elected rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Tarpon Springs. The parish, organized in 1892, is one of the oldest churches in the Diocese of Southwest Florida and the Tampa Bay region. “I am pleased and honored to be called as rector of All [...]
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:35:23 +0000 - [Church Divinity School of the Pacific] Dr. Donn F. Morgan and the Rev. Dr. Linda L. Clader are retiring from Church Divinity School of the Pacific on June 30, the Very Rev. W. Mark Richardson, CDSP dean and president, has announced. Dr. Donn F. Morgan Morgan has taught Old Testament at CDSP since 1972 and served [...]
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:01:44 +0000 - [National Council of Churches in India press release] The Most Rev. I Jesudasan of the Church of South India (CSI) passed way in Trivandrum on June 16 at the age of 88. A dynamic leader, Bishop Jesudasan was the first person in Kerala to ordain women. Also an academician, he served as principal of the [...]
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:38:57 +0000 - [Anglican Communion News Service] Archbishop Paul Kwong, who was recently re-elected for a second six-year term as primate, has called Anglicans in Hong Kong to “do-it-yourself,”* to fulfill their own ministries rather than rely on external assistance. The church’s Echo Magazine revealed that, in a speech following his re-election, the primate said he “deplored” the [...]
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:59:13 +0000 - [Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs press release] En el Día Mundial del Refugiado, el 20 de junio de 2013, la Obispa Presidenta de la Iglesia Episcopal Katharine Jefferts Schori y el Obispo Presidente de la Iglesia Evangélica Luterana en América (ELCA) Mark S. Hanson, han emitido la siguiente declaración conjunta. Día Mundial del Refugiado [...]
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:03:28 +0000 - [Episcopal Peace Fellowship press release] For the first time in its 74-year history the Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF) will have both its executive director and chair of the group’s National Executive Council (NEC) in their early 30s. After serving one year as interim, the Rev. Allison Liles will become executive director and the Rev. Jessie [...]
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:57:50 +0000 - [Episcopal Diocese of Washington] This blog is part of a series from the Episcopal Diocese of Washington on LGBT and faith topics in honor of LGBT Pride Month. With a mixture of relief and deep joy, parishioners from St. George’s Episcopal Church in Glenn Dale gathered in our sanctuary on the evening of November 7, [...]
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:38:53 +0000 - [Church of Ireland press release] The survival of the parish registers of the small rural parish of Templeharry in County Offaly helped to underpin the return visit of Michelle Obama with her daughters Sasha and Malia to Dublin on Monday (17 June 2013). The registers, which contain the ancestral evidence of the Kearney family material [...]
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:36:19 +0000 - [Anglican Communion News Service] An estimated 20,000 pilgrims from Africa and beyond braved the cold over the weekend to gather at the shrine of Bernard Mizeki, an African evangelist martyred in 1896. Held June 14-16, the celebrations were described as having the best attendance in living memory. Despite average night-time temperatures of 6 degrees Celsius [...]
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:28:19 +0000 - [Episcopal News Service] Every week in north Paris, a few hundred Iraqi Christians gather for worship. It’s a bittersweet reunion for them. Their lives have been spared, but the events of the past 10 years have forced them into exile. Many have lost close family and friends in the bloodshed of the Iraq War and [...]
