Posts made in October, 2021

St. James’ Church in Newport Beach, California, collected school supplies for young members of its sister congregation, St. Michael’s in Anaheim, at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year. Courtesy photo [Diocese of Los Angeles] As churches reimagine post-pandemic ministry, two Southern California congregations hope a budding relationship will blossom into a full-fledged cross-cultural exchange. For the Rev. Juan Jimenez, vicar of...

Residents forced from their home by the earthquake that hit Haiti carry food away from a stadium used as a shelter in Les Cayes on Aug. 23. Photo: Reuters [Religion News Service] Within hours of the earthquake that devastated Haiti’s Tiburon Peninsula in August, faith-based aid workers were on the scene, comforting victims and helping to pull survivors from the rubble, then providing food and water. “The most important thing in a...

Mike Kornezos, a member of the Bois Forte Nation, and Thomas Jones, of Leech Lake, having been harvesting wild rice together on Minnesota’s lakes and waterways for about a decade. Kornezos is junior warden at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cass Lake. Photo: Lynette Wilson/ENS [Episcopal News Service – Bemidji, Minnesota] In mid-August, Mike Kornezos and his longtime ricing partner Thomas Jones were out on the lakes checking the...

Native American (Chiricahua Apache) boys and girls pose outdoors at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, after their arrival from Fort Marion, Florida, in November 1886. Photo: J.N. Choate/Creative Commons [Religion News Service] A number of Catholic groups and Protestant denominations are calling for the United States to establish a truth and healing commission to reckon with the country’s history of...

[The Episcopal News] The 2021 meeting of Diocesan Convention will take place in person on Saturday, Nov. 13 at the Riverside Convention Center, concluding with Eucharist. Along with the usual reports of work, approval of the next year’s budget, election of officers and other business, the convention will host the biannual Margaret Parker Lecture, delivered this year by environmental advocate Mary Nichols (see related...