[Episcopal News Service] The Holy Spirit comes, for some, as a comforting presence. For others, it’s a disturbing upsetter. And still, for others, it is mysterious, even scary. But don’t confuse it just with Pentecost – the 50th day after Easter – which the church observes this Sunday (May 19) and which “challenges us to [...]
The Holy Spirit, comforting and mysterious, is ‘never neat’
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Falls Church Episcopal celebrates past, looks to future
Episcopal congregation may still face at least one more legal hurdle
[Episcopal News Service] When the members of The Falls Church Episcopal formally install their new rector and celebrate their ministry together May 15, it will be just more than a year since they first returned to their historic building, nine months since their rector joined them and five days ahead of what they had hoped [...]
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ENS launches ‘On The Move’ for churchwide appointments, transitions
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] Episcopal News Service has launched a new section, On The Move, sharing the news of churchwide appointments, job transitions, clergy ordinations and retirements. “We wanted to add this new section to the Episcopal News Service website to make it easier for people to share the news of their job [...]
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‘Participating in God’s mission’; GEMN wraps up in Bogotá
[Episcopal News Service – Bogotá, Colombia] “Together Christ’s body can and will reconcile and heal this world. ¡Si, se puede!” said Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, in a sermon delivered during the closing Eucharist of the 18th annual Global Episcopal Mission Network (GEMN) conference. “Well, friends, I think you’ve found some powerful assurance in these [...]
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Companions in faith and resources
GEMN conference underway in Bogotá
[Episcopal News Service – Bogotá, Colombia] An hour and half outside densely populated Bogotá in the mountains sits Mision de Santa Marta and behind it a farm. It is the only parish in Facatativá, a municipality populated by mostly farmers and in addition the farm — which is not under cultivation because of lack of resources [...]
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Video & Feature – Iona: A Celtic Pilgrimage
Celtic Christianity celebrates 1,450th anniversary of Columba’s Iona
[Episcopal News Service] The ancient Celts described Iona as a “thin place,” where the veil between heaven and earth is lifted, and where one might glimpse the divine. For centuries pilgrims have traveled to this small island off the West coast of Scotland, leaving behind their chaotic lives to rest, reflect and walk in the [...]
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New Jersey diocese elects William ‘Chip’ Stokes as 12th bishop
[Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey] The Rev. Canon William ‘Chip’ H. Stokes, rector of St. Paul’s Church in Delray Beach, Florida, has been elected as 12th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, pending the required consents from a majority of bishops with jurisdiction and standing committees of the Episcopal Church. Stokes, 56, was [...]
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‘Abundant hope’ is possible amid climate despair
Conference calls churches, scientist to find new ways to work together
Editors’ note: Story updated May 10 to add link at end of story to just-released video of May 2 sessions. [Episcopal News Service – Washington, D.C.] The Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Church of Sweden (Lutheran) committed during a climate change conference here to “leading a conversion of epic scale, [...]
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Episcopal churches prepare for disaster, create community networks
Becoming ‘sanctuaries of hope’ in time of disaster
[Episcopal News Service] In the event of earthquake or fires or other disaster, Betsy Eddy will tweet an invitation to San Francisco’s Diamond Heights community, to come to St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church for food and resource information. It’s just one part of the church’s — and the neighborhood’s — disaster preparedness plan. It makes use [...]
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Six months after Sandy, Episcopalians find ministry in disaster
Evolving local needs mean evolving mission opportunities
[Episcopal News Service] When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the United States six months ago, the so-called “Frankenstorm” gave some New Jersey Episcopalians new ways of understanding the biblical experiences of exile and Passover. The winter contingent of St. Elisabeth’s Chapel-by-the-Sea in Ortley Beach is in exile. Sandy swept the seasonal chapel off [...]
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