Posts made in April, 2021

[Pasadena Star News] U.S. District Judge David Carter, who presides over a labyrinthine case in which plaintiffs argue that public officials have not done enough to address Los Angeles’s homelessness crisis, ordered up the urgent timeline, arguing in a 110-page order that “for decades in Los Angeles, the desperation of its citizens has been met with a yawn.” A federal judge has set out a whirlwind schedule for the...

[Anglican Communion News Service] Churches around the Anglican Communion are deeply involved in the fight against racism, both within the structures of the church itself and in wider society. The year 2020 was marked by an increase in support for the Black Lives Matter movement, following the death of George Floyd, an African American, at the hands of police officers in the United States. Many churches released statements in response...

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preached an impassioned and at times personal sermon during an April 20 virtual Compline service organized by the Episcopal Church in Minnesota and held hours after a jury convicted a former police officer in the killing of George Floyd. “You have been faithful through this journey, and many of you have marched and virtually all of you have prayed and you have stayed the course,”...

Featured Events  Enneagram Workshop with Hunter Mobley Online Course (The Urban Well) Apr. 30-May 1Preaching Jesus With Courageous Authenticity Zoom (Episcopal Preaching Foundation) June 7-11Gathering on Sacred Ground with Presiding Bishop Curry Online (The Episcopal Church) Apr. 27 @ 5:30 p.m. ETCovid and Congregations: What Lies Ahead In 2021? Webinar (FaithX) Apr. 27 @ 1 p.m. ETEpiscopal...

[form https://bishopsagainstgunviolence.org/] Bishops United Against Gun Violence, a network of nearly 100 Episcopal Church bishops, urges our cities, states and nation to adopt policies and pass legislation that will reduce the number of people in the United States killed and wounded by gunfire. FOLLOW OUR WORK ON FACEBOOK Statement on the Atlanta Spa Shootings On Tuesday, another white man who should not have had a gun shot and...