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The Pagosa Springs Sun – St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church welcomes new rector – St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church is happy to announce that the Rev. Wren Blessing is our new permanent rector…

The Philadelphia Tribune – Meet Pauli Murray, the Civil Rights activist you’ve never heard of – Pauli Murray worked alongside some of the biggest names in the Civil Rights movement…

HudsonValley360 – New priests at Christ Church Episcopal Hudson – The Reverend Kathleen Killian and the Reverend John Alison, married, are the new full time vicars at Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson. They came to Hudson most recently from Maine where each served separate parishes on Mount Desert Island.

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St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church welcomes new rector

The Pagosa Springs Sun – CO

Blessing started her ministry at St. Patrick’s on Aug. 16. As many of you remember, Fr. Doug Neel retired after 12 years of service at St. Patrick’s in July 2020. Over the last year, the Rev. Lyn Burns has very capably served as our interim rector while we searched for a priest and pastor, which we found in Blessing. Blessing comes to Pagosa Springs with her sons, Isaac and Eli, from Grace Episcopal Church on Bainbridge Island, Wash.

Blessing brings a wealth of varied experience, including time as a social worker with Spanish speakers, a season as a community garden manager and a period serving as deacon in charge of a Spanish-language mission church in Durham, N.C. Blessing received her master of divinity from Duke University in 2009. She was ordained a deacon in 2012 and as a priest in 2013. After serving a curacy, Blessing became Canon for Christian Formation for the Episcopal Diocese of Montana, supporting parishes across the state and directing Camp Marshall, the diocesan camp on Flathead Lake in Polson, Mon. Blessing returned to parish ministry at Grace Episcopal Church on Bainbridge Island, Wash., in 2018 and is now delighted to serve the people of St. Patrick’s and wider community in Pagosa Springs. […]

Meet Pauli Murray, the Civil Rights activist you’ve never heard of

The Philadelphia Tribune – Philadelphia, PA

Pauli Murray worked alongside some of the biggest names in the Civil Rights movement but many have never heard of them. They were a LGBTQ icon, priest (Episcopalian), and pioneer who, like so many other LGBTQ members, was instrumental in the civil rights movement. Unfortunately, they have been omitted from history.

Betsy West and Julie Cohen are the filmmakers, who along with producer Talleah Bridges McMahon. are bringing them front and center in the new Amazon documentary “My Name is Pauli Murray.” West and Cohen previously worked on the critically acclaimed “RBG”, the documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and it is through this vehicle that they came across them. […]

New priests at Christ Church Episcopal Hudson

HudsonValley360 – Hudson, NY

The Reverend Kathleen Killian and the Reverend John Alison, married, are the new full time vicars at Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson. They came to Hudson most recently from Maine where each served separate parishes on Mount Desert Island. […]