Summary
The Villages Daily Sun – Prayer chains gain popularity in villages – there are a group of women who are ready to pray at a moment’s notice. They are the “prayer chain”…
Cincinnati Magazine – Rev. Olivia Hamilton Ministers to Children and Families – Rev. Olivia Hamilton helps people make sense of difficult situations through faith…
San Diego Reader – Trinity Episcopal: rising to the challenge – In our world, religion by now is getting a bad name because it’s easy for it to be distorted into a self-centered and superstitious way of managing life. Our world, our society, everyone is tossing faith out as something that is not good for life or necessary for human flourishing. It worries me that faith and religion are being tossed out
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Prayer chains gain popularity in villages
The Villages Sun – The Villages, FL
In and around The Villages, there are a group of women who are ready to pray at a moment’s notice. They are the “prayer chain” at St. George Episcopal Church in The Villages, and members admit that the requests have grown sharply in recent months given the coronavirus pandemic. It’s one of several examples of the role prayer chains and ministries are playing in and around The Villages. “I’m part of the Order of the Daughters of the King, which is a group of women who have pledged to be faithful to their ministry and prayer to the church,” said Leila Mullis, a Summerfield native who helps lead the St. George Episcopal prayer chain. “I see what I do with the prayer chain as an outgrowth of that.” […]
Rev. Olivia Hamilton Ministers to Children and Families
Cincinnati Magazine – Cincinnati, OH
Through her work at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program, Rev. Olivia Hamilton helps people make sense of difficult situations through faith. She describes her role of Episcopal Priest and Staff Chaplain and the value it provides the community for our February 2021 Cincinnati At Work issue. […]
Trinity Episcopal: rising to the challenge
San Diego Reader – San Diego, CA
Pastor Meg Decker: In our world, religion by now is getting a bad name because it’s easy for it to be distorted into a self-centered and superstitious way of managing life. Our world, our society, everyone is tossing faith out as something that is not good for life or necessary for human flourishing. It worries me that faith and religion are being tossed out – or being distorted into something that should be tossed out. The faith shouldn’t be a holding onto the past and never changing, but a way of moving into the future – a good future for everyone.
What is the mission of your church? […]
White Supremacy and Deradicalization
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church – New York, NY
Resolved, That the Executive Council, meeting virtually from January 22, through January 25, 2021, acknowledges and repents its past support for white supremacy and the sins of the Church’s past in being complicit and upholding white supremacist ideologies and systems; we are called to notice and remove these sins from our current and future Church as we grapple with having benefitted from these sins;
Resolved, That the Executive Council is alarmed that white nationalism is increasingly on the rise and violent white supremacist groups are increasing in the number of those who believe in dangerous conspiracy theories, including members of Congress, high-level government officials, and influential media personalities; […]
Our Responsibility to Stand Against Christian Nationalism: Executive Council Opening Remarks
House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church – New York, NY
President Jennings gave these opening remarks to an online meeting of Executive Council on January 22:
Hello, and welcome to this online meeting of Executive Council. We’re beginning to get good at meeting this way!
I’m grateful for this technology that allows our work to continue, but just because it has become routine, I don’t want to minimize the strain that it places on many of us and the staff who support our work. Thank you for your continuing perseverance in the face of Zoom fatigue, barking dogs, children home from school, glitchy home wifi, and the endless challenges of the mute button, not to mention economic uncertainty, spiraling COVID infection rates, and an existential crisis in the democracy of the United States. We see you, and we are grateful. […]