Posts made in July, 2021

Church Publishing Incorporated (CPI), the publisher of official worship materials of The Episcopal Church, today announced the release of a revised Journey to Adulthood, an online, subscription-based, downloadable youth ministry program of spiritual formation for 6th through 12th grades. The program was developed by St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Durham, NC, and updated in collaboration with a team of clergy, youth ministers, and...

Westina Matthews compiled and edited “This Band of Sisterhood.” Photo: Scott Townell [Episcopal News Service] The unique blessings, joys, frustrations, challenges, and realities faced by the first five African American women diocesan bishops in The Episcopal Church are explored in candid conversations in “This Band of Sisterhood: Black Women Bishops on Race, Faith, and the Church,” compiled and edited by Westina Matthews. Matthews, an...

Bishop Diane M. Jardine Bruce and her husband, Stephen Bruce, attend the July 17 virtual UBE awards program, where she was honored as an “exemplary ally.” Suzanne Edwards-Acton was honored by UBE with the Bishop Quintin E. Primo award on Juy 17. Screenshot: Diane Jardine Bruce [The Episcopal News] The churchwide Union of Black Episcopalians, meeting virtually on July 18 for its annual awards presentation, honored Bishop Diane M....

[Episcopal News Service] The 53rd annual conference of the Union of Black Episcopalians this year will include “a fresh wave of divine love, guidance and power,” in the form of a good old-fashioned revival, and everyone’s invited. The online churchwide “Lift Every Voice and Sing” gathering July 27-30 will feature 7 p.m. EDT nightly spirited worship; daily noon plenary sessions examining systemic racism, inclusion, and...

[Episcopal News Service] Despite the increasing incidence of COVID-19 in the country and the ever-increasing violence in the nine days since Haitians awoke to the news that President Jovenel Moïse had been assassinated, Episcopalians there are trying to serve their communities. “Well before the assassination, gang activity, kidnappings and killings were on the rise,” Kenneth H. Quigley, president of the board of St....