Summary

Sequim Gazette – St. Luke’s brings back daily church bells – Sequim residents can soon say, “I heard the bells on Christmas and Thanksgiving, too.”

Fauquier Times – New food pantry opens in Delaplane – On Wednesday, the Fauquier Community Food Bank will open the doors to a “satellite” food pantry in Delaplane.

The Wrap – ‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ Filmmakers Explain How They Portrayed a ‘Legendary But Little Known American’ (Video) – TheWrap Screening Series: The directors of 2018’s ‘RBG’ and collaborators discuss their new film about a civil rights trailblazer. Private and humble, Murray died in 1985 at age 74 and was largely forgotten.

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St. Luke’s brings back daily church bells

Sequim Gazette – Sequim, WA

Sequim residents can soon say, “I heard the bells on Christmas and Thanksgiving, too.”

The once-common Westminster Chime at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church rings once again starting at noon on Thursday, Nov. 25.

It’s been more than 18 months since the bell tower went silent after the church’s system malfunctioned.

Rev. ClayOla Gitane, rector at the church on North Fifth Ave., said she received a call at about 1 a.m. one night in March of 2020 from a 9-1-1 dispatcher asking if she was the pastor. […]

New food pantry opens in Delaplane

Fauquier Times – Delaplane, VA

On Wednesday, the Fauquier Community Food Bank will open the doors to a “satellite” food pantry in Delaplane. The new location is open to everyone who qualifies, but it is meant especially help isolated older people living in the sparsely populated hills of northern Fauquier County.

The new food pantry is located on the Emmanuel Episcopal Church campus next to U.S. 17, just off Interstate 66. Since the “satellite” pantry will run on the same system as the main food bank in Warrenton […]

‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ Filmmakers Explain How They Portrayed a ‘Legendary But Little Known American’ (Video)

The Wrap – National

It was during the production of their 2018 Oscar nominated documentary “RBG” that directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West fully learned about the incredible life and career of Pauli Murray. An influence on Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Thurgood Marshall and countless others, Murray was a lawyer, legal scholar, civil rights activist, Episcopal priest, poet and (perhaps unknowingly at the time) an icon for LGBT rights, especially transgender rights.

Private and humble, Murray died in 1985 at age 74 and was largely forgotten. But the new documentary “My Name Is Pauli Murray” is meant to remedy that […]

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Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida Diocesan Convention is just around the corner

If you or your organization would like to have a display this year, please complete the attached application. The tentative schedule, hotel information, and further information will be available on our website at: https://cfdiocese.org/2022diocon/

Please note that the deadline for applications is January 14, 2022. Any applications received after this deadline will not be approved as we have deadlines at the Ocean Center.

New Bishop Search for Diocese of Virginia

The Diocese of Virginia now invites qualified candidates to discern whether God may be calling them to serve the Savior as the XIV Bishop of Virginia. The Search Committee also invites Virginia Episcopalians to dedicate time in prayer and meditation to discern what the Holy Spirit calls the Diocese of Virginia to be and do in order to further God’s kingdom of love and light in our world, our communities and our congregations.

We encourage all members of the Diocese to explore the search website, read the profile, and take an active part in the search process. www.virginiabishopsearch.org

Diocese of Nevada notified of successful canonical consent process

The Episcopal Diocese of Nevada has received notification from Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael B. Curry that Bishop-elect Elizabeth Bonforte Gardner has received the required majority of consents in the canonical consent process detailed in Canon III.11.3. The consents received have been certified by the Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, Registrar of the General Convention.

The Rev. Gardner was elected diocesan bishop on October 8, 2021.

A Favorite Chapter Christmas Version of 1 Corinthians Chapter 13

If I design fabulous Christmas cards, with flaw-less family photos and write newsy, clever Christmas letters about my perfect life, but have not love, I’m a phony friend.

And if I have super power to remember the correct sizes and color preferences of everyone on my list; and if I have faith to find parking on Black Friday, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give my Christmas bonus to the church, and work all day Saturday greening up the church, handing out shower towels and free soup, but have not love, I gain nothing. […]