Episcopal Church Women in the News 10-02-21
Summary
Times Record – Little boxes for a big need: Little food pantries adapt to growing food insecurity – The small wooden boxes sprinkled around Fort Smith go by many names: little free pantries, red boxes…
The Herald News – Rev. Dr. Susan H. Lee retiring from St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Fall River – Lee received her bachelor’s degree from Brown University and completed a Master of Divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School…
Episcopal News Service – Movement grows to honor Bishop Barbara Harris with a feast day on her date of death – Dioceses and Episcopal leaders are joining a growing movement to add Bishop Barbara Harris to The Episcopal Church’s calendar of Lesser Feasts and Fasts. They are lining up diocesan resolutions that will ask the 80th General Convention
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Little boxes for a big need: Little food pantries adapt to growing food insecurity
Times Record – Fort Smith, AR
The small wooden boxes sprinkled around Fort Smith go by many names: little free pantries, red boxes, blessing boxes, giving boxes. No matter what they are labeled, they all serve the same purpose – providing people facing hunger with an accessible, anonymous way to receive food.
The boxes function on a simple premise – take what you need, leave what you can.
St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, located at 2701 Old Greenwood Road, first placed a giving box on its campus in 2017 after seeing a need in the neighborhood. […]
Rev. Dr. Susan H. Lee retiring from St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Fall River
The Herald News – Fall River, MA
In honor of the retirement of the Rev. Dr. Susan H. Lee, a service of Holy Eucharist will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 26, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 315 Warren St., Fall River.
The public is invited to attend the service and reception that will follow. There will be overflow seating in the gym to allow for social distancing, and masks are required.
Lee received her bachelor’s degree from Brown University and completed a Master of Divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School. She was ordained deacon in Providence, Rhode Island, in June 1988 and began her ministry at St. Luke’s on July 1, 1988. The Rt. Rev. George Hunt ordained her to the priesthood on March 4, 1989, in a liturgy at the church. Lee was the first woman ordained in the city of Fall River and the service was covered widely in the press. She served as associate rector and co-rector with the Rev. James Hornsby for 14 years before becoming rector in 2002. […]
Movement grows to honor Bishop Barbara Harris with a feast day on her date of death
Episcopal News Service – National
Dioceses and Episcopal leaders are joining a growing movement to add Bishop Barbara Harris to The Episcopal Church’s calendar of Lesser Feasts and Fasts. They are lining up diocesan resolutions that will ask the 80th General Convention to advance her elevation to the status of a church saint at its meeting in July 2022, just two years after her death.
Harris was consecrated in 1989 as bishop suffragan of the Diocese of Massachusetts, becoming the first female bishop in the Anglican Communion. She retired in 2002 but remained an active and prominent figure in The Episcopal Church and a role model for younger generations of Episcopal leaders until her death March 13, 2020, at age 89. Harris also is remembered for her support of social justice causes and her part in the first wave of women to be ordained as Episcopal priests. […]
