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RIP The Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris (1930-2020)
The Bishop of Massachusetts, the Rt. Rev. Alan M. Gates, announced today that the Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris, retired Suffragan Bishop of that diocese, died Friday evening. She was 89.
Harris was the first woman to be consecrated a bishop in the Anglican Communion and the first African-American elevated to that title in the Episcopal Church. A ( Read more... ) -
Online Holy Eucharist with the Presiding Bishop This Sunday
In this extraordinary time when corporate worship is being discouraged or even forbidden, the church has been invited to participate in a special Eucharist broadcast from the Cathedral Church of St. Peter & St. Paul in Washington DC, to be held this Sunday, 15th March, beginning at 11:00 EDT. The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of the ( Read more... ) -
Presiding Bishop Speaks Out on US Withdrawl from Paris Climate Accord
The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church issued a statement in response to the news that President Trump would unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. -
*sneezes*
I don't know if there is any hope for this community as such, but if you are still using LJ and would like to be friends (assuming we're not already), please comment or PM me. I have become less, I won't say picky but certainly *specific* in order to keep my friends list active, and as such it has become overwhelmingly secular, as I imagine yours ( Read more... ) -
General Convention 2015
I'm writing this as much to get off the last unhappy but very relevant topic which has been our "headline" for a long time as to get an answer to my question. I saw in That Other Place that at least four people from this group -- including yours truly -- will be at The 78th General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Salt Lake City in July/July ( Read more... ) -
Anybody out there? EfM, Believe Out Loud and other randomness
I have noticed a slight uptick in people posting to their journals and commenting... a number of folks who disappeared into Facebookland seemed to realize there are some things you can't say adequately in a 160-character post ( Read more... ) -
Reviving this Community / Things I like about TEC
1. Weekly Communion ( Read more... ) -
Book of Remembrance
Does anyone use a Book of Remebrance in their church, to list those who have died and those who have donated money in their name? Ours is almost out of space and we've been trying to find a new one for years. The one we have currently is 13" x 10" x 2", about 100 pages, leather-bound and with a woven binding (not spiral). And, the important part, ( Read more... ) -
Fort Worth: Judge rules against Bishop Iker
From Thinking Anglicans:
According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Judge rules for national Episcopalians, against Iker’s group
A state district judge on Friday ordered the group of Episcopalians headed by Bishop Jack Iker to “surrender all Diocesan property as well as control of the Diocese Corporation” to Episcopalians loyal to the national ( Read more... ) -
Ashamed to be a Christian?
A friend linked to this post of tethys89's, and I thought it might resonate with folks here on episcopal. Yesterday the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, launched his Not Ashamed campaign. He feels that Christians in the UK are being persecuted ( Read more... )